Digital Clock Building

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[punkky] has been documenting his adventures building digital clocks. They each use six 7-segment LED displays, but he’s been gradually changing how they are built. The first version used a CMOS BCD-to-7-sement latch on each display, which is tied to a PIC16F627a. For the next run, he added multiplexing, so he could drive all the segments using just thirteen pins. He’s posted a final schematic with code and details of how the clock timing actually works.

10 thoughts on “Digital Clock Building

  1. If it doesnt need to be battery powered, you could step line voltage down to 5v, clean the wave up with a schmitt trigger, and set up a frequency divider to get a 1pps square wave. The 555 would be easier nvm XD

  2. We all have to begin somewhere. It is a good learning project. I have made a clock using 74′ series IC, programable counter, keyboard entry, latches for alarm and a comparitor circuit.
    I have many PIC’s, basic stamps, Z80 and ….. But I still injoy the extream challange of designing a circuit without any programming…stuff.
    Good job!!!

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