EMBEDDED BASED PROPELLER TIME MONITOR SYSTEM

MECHANICALLY SCANNED DIGITAL CLOCK Put seven LEDs on a stick and rotate them at 600 rpm, use a small microcontroller to keep the time and blink the LEDs in an appropriate pattern to show the numbers and you have a propeller clock! As your eye cannot follow the flash rate of the LEDs, it looks like the digital numbers are floating in thin air! Main features of my clock are:

Basic PIC 16F84 flash microcontroller IR sensor with IR led Standard PC power supply FAN used as motor to get the clock rotating.

Mechanics
To get the propeller clock going I used a 12v dc fan and it has a nice large rotating motor house to build on. I tuned down the speed to an acceptable low level of about 600 rpm The PIC is fast enough for higher speed, but the noise becomes unacceptably high at higher speeds! A motor spins the "propeller", and a small microprocessor keeps track of time and changes the pattern on seven LEDs with exact timing to simulate a 7 by 30 array of LEDs. It is an illusion, but it works nicely.

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Power Supply

Brush less Dc motor

Microcontroller Board

IR sensor

Led to show time