[Lab] How to set a clock

[Darcy Whyte]

IR is a nice one.. cool thing about that is it can trigger visualizations
too..



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On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Steve La Rocque <slarocque at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  Hmm... IR receiver?  I'm sure they have universal remotes in the bar
> already.  Could you point at it and punch in the time setting?
>
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> On 09/11/2014 01:55 PM, Darcy Whyte wrote:
>
> Everything is an option. But that one isn't very simple. :)
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> Darcy Whyte
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>  Software Since '88 siteware.com | Contact: darcy at siteware.com |
> 613-563-3634 by appointment
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>  Canada N 45° 25'03.1" W 75° 42'21.4"
>  Art+ inventorArtist.com <http://inventorartist.com/> | Aviation
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> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Steve La Rocque <slarocque at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>  Is bluetooth a viable option?  A little app could send it commands...
>>
>>
>>
>> On 09/11/2014 12:54 PM, Darcy Whyte wrote:
>>
>>  So here's what I believe to be the best candidate (so far) for setting
>> the time.
>>
>>  It just requires a switch (and whatever pull resistor).
>>
>>  Using two gestures hold and click.
>>
>>  To set 2:31:
>> hold
>> click click
>> hold
>> click click click
>> hold
>> click
>> hold
>>
>>  To set 3:02
>> hold
>> click click click
>> hold
>> hold
>> click click
>> hold
>>
>>  If there were not four holds, it throws out your data and goes back to
>> clock with whatever time it was on. So I guess there's a third gesture
>> which is wait which abandons the operation.
>>
>>  The worst scenario is 12:59:
>> hold
>> click click click click click click click click click click click click
>>  hold
>> click click click click click
>>  hold
>> click click click click click click click click click
>>  hold
>>
>>  It's easy enough to do and only requires one switch.
>>
>>
>>
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>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at inventorartist.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> So I have this rooster that tells time:
>>> http://inventorartist.com/time-rooster/
>>>
>>>  Here's a tricky problem. How to set the time? I mean a user friendly
>>> way for a user.
>>>
>>>  I think I have a solution but I wanted to table it here to see if
>>> anybody has anything up their sleeve. I will post my idea shortly but I
>>> didn't want to bias anybody's problem solving skill...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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