That is some beautiful work! Congrats.

Any spare PCB's lying around? ;-)

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:14 AM, Mitch <[email protected]> wrote:

> In addition to the extra tube and assorted parts, the 7805 used with the
> seven digit clocks was swapped out for a switching supply. Now everything
> is cool to the touch except for the Taylor edge supply, which is just
> slightly warm. Also, I added a nRF24L01+ RF module and 3.3v supply for it,
> on the right side of the board, two 4 pin headers for on-board GPS, one for
> Adafruit, and one for Ublox, and another phone jack to remotely mount the
> temperature sensor.
>
> The software took much longer to develop than I had anticipated. With
> Carl's help the clock has the option to receive time from the Mod-6
> repeater, in addition to GPS and on-board RTC only options. I thought about
> having GPS and repeater fall back to each other but that didn't seem to
> make much sense, so whichever one is selected will fall back to the RTC,
> with appropriate indicators.
>
> Next I plan to design a four button remote control using ATiny or a
> similar processor, and another nRF24L01+ transciever, maybe even with some
> feedback. I'll also work on an eight digit version of the first clock that
> uses a variety of small tubes, adding RF to that one, too.
>
> After that, I'd like to switch to Atmel Studio. Without the benefit of a
> debugger, this took far longer than it would have taken, had one been
> available. At that point I want to switch to a faster, 32 bit processor, as
> long as the libraries don't cause too many compatibility issues.  The 1284P
> was easy to add, with only a crystal and a couple caps. I'm not sure if the
> 32 bit processors are as simple to integrate.
>
> That's about it.
>
>
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3kvk05blsPJQ0ttVlA3RWI3dDg/view?usp=sharing
>
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