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visualize a binary clock via the pimoroni piglow

node-piglow-clock

node-piglow-clock uses your piglow to show a binary clock. one leg is used for the seconds, one leg for the minutes, one arm for the hours. details for setting up your system can be found on the node-piglow page.

In action timelapse video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgzkyBT-Zkw

Installation

$ npm install piglow-clock -g

Run

Command Line

$ piglow-clock [-b brightness] [-d debug]

Parameter:

• brightness: specifies how bright the LED should shine. range: 0-255, default: 10
• debug: on each tick the time is written to the console

End

End the piglow-clock process via ctr+c or via sending a SIGINT signal, it will reset the piglow LEDs then.

From your program:

var piglowClock = require('piglow-clock');

var options = {
  brightness: 255 //the maximum brightness, defaults to 10
};

piglowClock.start(options);

process.on('SIGINT', end);

function end() {
    //resets all leds
    piglowClock.stop(function() {
        process.exit();
    });
}

made with

• node-piglow https://github.com/zaphod1984/node-piglow
• optimist https://github.com/substack/node-optimist

node-piglow-clock's Issues

debug parameterisation

Update to make it work with piglow 3.0

It would be great to see this working on the RPi with Node 6.x, but piglow 3.0 is needed which provides support for i2c 0.2.3. Thanks!

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