{"id":1519,"date":"2018-04-17T14:09:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T21:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donluc.com\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2018-04-17T14:09:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T21:09:09","slug":"project-7-rgb-lcd-shield-mk01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/?p=1519","title":{"rendered":"Project #7: RGB LCD Shield – Mk01"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RGB LCD Shield<\/strong>
\nProject #7 \u2013 Mk01<\/strong><\/p>\n

ChronoDot<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 x RGB LCD Shield 16\u00d72 Character Display
\n1 x Arduino Uno – R3
\n1 x ProtoScrewShield
\n1 x ChronoDot
\n4 x Jumper Wires 3″ M\/M
\n1 x Half-Size Breadboard<\/p>\n

A5
\nA4
\nGND
\n3.3V<\/p>\n

DonLuc1804Mk07a.ino<\/strong><\/p>\n

\r\n\/\/ ***** Don Luc *****\r\n\/\/ Software Version Information\r\n\/\/ 1.03\r\n\/\/ DonLuc1804Mk07 1.03\r\n\/\/ RGB LCD Shield\r\n\/\/ ChronoDot\r\n\r\n\/\/ include the library code:\r\n#include <Wire.h>\r\n#include <Adafruit_MCP23017.h>\r\n#include <Adafruit_RGBLCDShield.h>\r\n#include <RTClib.h>\r\n#include <RTC_DS3231.h>\r\n\r\nRTC_DS3231 RTC;\r\n\r\n#define SQW_FREQ DS3231_SQW_FREQ_1024     \/\/0b00001000   1024Hz\r\n\r\nAdafruit_RGBLCDShield RGBLCDShield = Adafruit_RGBLCDShield();\r\n\r\n#define GREEN 0x2\r\n\r\n\/\/ ChronoDot\r\nchar datastr[100];\r\n\r\nvoid loop() {\r\n\r\n  RGBLCDShield.clear();\r\n\r\n  timeChrono();\r\n   \r\n  delay(2000);  \r\n\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n
ChronoDot.ino<\/strong><\/p>\n
\r\nvoid setupChrono() {\r\n\r\n  RTC.begin();\r\n  \r\n  DateTime now = RTC.now();\r\n  DateTime compiled = DateTime(__DATE__, __TIME__);\r\n  RTC.getControlRegisterData( datastr[0] );  \r\n  \r\n}\r\n\r\nvoid timeChrono() {\r\n \r\n    DateTime now = RTC.now();\r\n    DateTime isNow (now.unixtime() + 6677 * 86400L + 42500);\r\n\r\n    \/\/ set the cursor to column 0, line 0\r\n    RGBLCDShield.setCursor(0,0);\r\n    RGBLCDShield.print(isNow.year(), DEC);\r\n    RGBLCDShield.print('\/');\r\n    RGBLCDShield.print(isNow.month(), DEC);\r\n    RGBLCDShield.print('\/');\r\n    RGBLCDShield.print(isNow.day(), DEC);\r\n    RGBLCDShield.print(' ');\r\n    RGBLCDShield.print(' ');\r\n\r\n    \/\/ set the cursor to column 0, line 1\r\n    RGBLCDShield.setCursor(0, 1);\r\n    RGBLCDShield.print(isNow.hour(), DEC);\r\n    RGBLCDShield.print(':');\r\n    RGBLCDShield.print(isNow.minute(), DEC);\r\n    RGBLCDShield.print(':');\r\n    RGBLCDShield.print(isNow.second(), DEC);\r\n    RGBLCDShield.print(' ');\r\n    RGBLCDShield.print(' ');\r\n    \r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n
setup.ino<\/strong><\/p>\n
\r\nvoid setup() {\r\n\r\n  \/\/ set up the LCD's number of columns and rows: \r\n  RGBLCDShield.begin(16, 2);\r\n\r\n  RGBLCDShield.print("Don Luc");\r\n  RGBLCDShield.setBacklight(GREEN);\r\n   \/\/ set the cursor to column 0, line 1\r\n  RGBLCDShield.setCursor(0, 1);\r\n  \/\/ print the number of seconds since reset:\r\n  RGBLCDShield.print("ChronoDot"); \r\n\r\n  delay(5000);\r\n\r\n  \/\/ ChronoDot\r\n  setupChrono();\r\n  \r\n  delay(1500); \/\/wait for the sensor to be ready \r\n  \r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n
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RGB LCD Shield Project #7 \u2013 Mk01 ChronoDot 1 x RGB LCD Shield 16\u00d72 Character Display 1 x Arduino Uno – R3 1 x ProtoScrewShield 1 x ChronoDot 4 x Jumper Wires 3″ M\/M 1 x Half-Size Breadboard A5 A4 GND 3.3V DonLuc1804Mk07a.ino \/\/ ***** Don Luc ***** \/\/ Software Version Information \/\/ 1.03 \/\/ … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,47,50,38,5,58,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rgb-lcd-shield","category-adafruit","category-arduino","category-digitalelectronics","category-microcontrollers","category-arduino-programming","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donluc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}