GPS Self-Adjusting Clock With An E-Ink Display

If you mention a clock that receives its time via radio, most people will think of one taking a long wave signal from a station such as WWVB, MSF, or DCF77. A more recent trend however has been for clocks that set themselves from orbiting navigation satellites, and an example comes to us from [KK99].

GPS Self-Adjusting Clock With An E-Ink Display

It’s a relatively simple hardware build in that it is simply an Arduino Nano, GPS module, and e-ink display module wired together, but it provides an interesting exercise in running through the code required for a GPS clock.

gps clock wiring

It does however give us a chance to remember the story from last year surrounding WWVB, as a budget proposal last year mooted the prospect of the closure of the Fort-Collins-based time signal transmitter. Were that to happen an estimated 50 million American clocks would lose their reference, and while their owners could always update them manually, there will always be time-based systems to which that won’t be applied for whatever reason.  Europeans meanwhile are safe in their time transmissions for now , but in case they think they have their mains grid to fall back on it’s worth remembering the time they lost six seconds.

 

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Ibrar Ayyub

Je suis expérimenté, rédacteur technique, titulaire d'une Maîtrise en informatique de BZU Multan, Pakistan à l'Université. Avec un arrière-plan couvrant diverses industries, notamment en matière de domotique et de l'ingénierie, j'ai perfectionné mes compétences dans la rédaction claire et concise du contenu. Compétent en tirant parti de l'infographie et des diagrammes, je m'efforce de simplifier des concepts complexes pour les lecteurs. Ma force réside dans une recherche approfondie et de présenter l'information de façon structurée et logique format.

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