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Hi there, wanna get together and build an arduino bases TCD? Time circuits display
Hi there BTTF fans.
My name is Fabio and I am from Uruguay. Been in love with BTTF movies since I was 5 years old, 25 years ago.
I´m currently building (or attempting to) the TCD or Time circuits display with arduino.
So far so good (maybe not that much as for screen accuracy) but nevertheless I wanted to share with this awesome community the advances I made and what is still left to do.
One of the things that is hard to me to do/find is the correct materials to make the aluminium enclosure, so... for now Im going with the plexiglass way.
Also I would like to make a poll in this forum regarding how people like/prefer the programming behavior of the TCD
My options are.
1) Just as in the movie. (No real RTC (no real time clock)) just punch the dates and it will simulate the time travel and then start keeping track of the present time as if it was a clock
2) RTC capabilites (I started with a coin cell operated RTC but now moved to a wifi NTP server connection so it syncs the time in each turn on, providing you are connected to the configured hotspot) this can also be changed for a battery RTC or even GPS sync wich will also come in handy for the 88 Speedo. This will always show "our date" in the present date, but you can fiddle with destination time and if you input another destination time the last one will be displayed as time departed. But present time will always act as a normal clock
3) No RTC, no time travel simulation, you can modifiy each display date individually by punching before the month a number from 1 to 3 which will define the display to be operated
4) 1,2,3 combined :)
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