Do-it-yourself projects and technology updates

Garage Clock using LEDs

This is another project that is quite unique, John at oldvan.com made a modification of a common 7 segment LED display into something more useful – to the community, that is. He used a number of LEDs in series and parallel to make a huge 7 segment display for his garage using a PIC16F877 Clock Controller and a GPS to feed the exact time. At first glance, I thought this is a simple MOD but as I read the latter pages, doing the project needed a bit of everything – basic electronics, programming and lots of creativity. Link

“A couple more hours of marking and drilling left the garage with 125 more holes needing filled. Over the next two days spare time I filled the holes with red LEDs.”

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