NeoPixel Clock

The latest code base for this project can be found here

Here’s a quick weekend project that I did a week or so back. I decided to put together a standalone wall clock using Adafruit’s 60 NeoPixel ring, a ChronoDot real-time clock (RTC), TSL2561 light sensor, and a PIC12F1840 to tie everything together. The hardware was pretty straightforward, but the interesting part about this project was really with the one-wire protocol used to control the NeoPixels.

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