Project by Jamie239740; Arduino E-Paper Clock

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I have just shared a new project: “Arduino E-Paper Clock”



This project started with a desire to have a modern digital clock that would use the natural light of the room for illumination. This means the screen is always the right brightness, looking like paper rather than a traditional screen. By using an E…

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Hey @Jamie239740

Welcome to the forum! That’s an awesome little clock, and a great use of the E-Paper hat. :slight_smile:

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Hello Jamie.
Your clock looks great. I don’t see how to access the files behind your project. You mention Github but can you give a more specific link, please?
John

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Sorry John, it seems like the link must’ve been accidentally left out of the published version. Here’s the link: https://github.com/JamieK0/E-paper-Clock

Both the CAD models and code (under the E-paper_Clock folder) are included.

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Nifty!

… How much scope is there for mucking around with the font and layout, with the libraries you’ve used?

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The u8g2 library has a heap of available fonts.

The main limitation is the Arduino Nano that is used. It doesn’t have enough memory to store a full font file, so the “u8g2_font_logisoso50_tn” font is used as it only contains numbers. It can be replaced with any other number only fonts indicated by the “_tn” suffix from the u8g2 font library. In the code anywhere where it contains u8g2Fonts.setFont should be updated to use the new font you’d like.

If you use a different microcontroller with more memory you may be able to use all the available fonts.

Also layouts can be adjusted by changing the x and y values where it says u8g2Fonts.setCursor(x, y) in the code to adjust the positioning of the time. The size of the time can be adjusted by using a different font with a different height. Like u8g2_font_logisoso30_tn instead of u8g2_font_logisoso50_tn.

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