This design is to help those dementia patients with reading the time, as an accompaniment to a normal clock to help with time recognition. The readout loops through "NIGHT", "MORNING", "NOON", "AFTERNOON", "EVENING", "NIGHT" based on the hour of the day. This is a very basic switch based on the fact I couldnt find anything on the market. The LEDs are now out of production so will have to be replaced with a suitable display readout.
Requires Wire library with the clock set up for SDA/SCL pins as described here: https://www.arduino.cc/en/reference/wire
This setup uses:
- 1 * Arduino Micro
- 1 * Rotary encoder (with button): https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9117
- 1 * Real time clock: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12708
- 9 * 16 segment LEDs (Now retired): https://www.sparkfun.com/products/retired/9933
- 18 * LED Switches to drive displays
Hardware diagram to be added later.