Edge-lit 7-Segment Display Clock Using Raspberry Pi Pico

[@majanta7369]

You’re great, thank you

[@mariemeyer2885]

Too cool, I love this.

[@SonOfSofaman]

Another great project. Nicely done.

[@benjaminfrohns]

Interesting concept, good job building it.

[@borgtwat]

I love this.

[@MAYERMAKES]

Very flashy Idea! I hope we get some more bonus footage of it displaying time in a dark room on the community page!

[@Davedarko]

since I'm not in the group, could you please pass along that the description is wrong 😬

[@Davedarko]

woops, I did not read on - was a bit misleading text

[@hifromkatie]

I've got the code walk through on the community, I'll look at adding more/longer footage of it working though, I increased the speed in this video, as watching real time was like watching paint dry!

[@newtlab]

Одлични сте сви у команди ,мада је најбољи мој земљак 👍👍👍🇷🇸

[@philhutchinson360]

Love this, You could certainly do some staggered rainbow effects with each segment.

[@hifromkatie]

I've realised the edit has only captured red!

[@qwaqwa1960]

I always wished Nixies had more parallax error, and now we have it ;-) Neat.

[@hifromkatie]

🤣

[@BilbyBaggins]

Neat project! In terms of next steps... animation? You have 7 segments at each position - with the existing layout you could cut acrylics to make for example a figure "walk" across all four positions. If you modified the board layout to interleave and widen the positions you could have two 14-segment animations. Not enough frames for a "smooth" look, but lots of options a-la the old neon signs.

[@matthewfelgate]

That's a cool project doing the 7 segment display in that way. Thanks for haring. It might be cool to do something with scenes (like foreground and background?) or maybe the sun or moon moving across the sky?

[@hifromkatie]

I like the idea of a sunrise and sunset with the sun moving across the project. I've had moon phase suggested on the community site too, so maybe incorporate both ideas

[@matthewfelgate]

@@hifromkatie Oh a moon phase might be cool!

[@awo1fman]

I think that if you covered the acrylic with black (paint, paper, whatever's handy, although using paper would allow for testing without any permanent consequences if it doesn't look good) except for the 7-segment area you would get less bleed-through of light and it would make the display clearer. Although this might be something that looks a lot better to the human eye than it looks on camera. You could probably just do one surface. That also might allow sandwiching the segment layers tightly together for an even better effect, although that would make the lighting part harder. Regardless, this is another cool idea and execution on your part.

[@hifromkatie]

Thats an interesting idea, as I was experimenting with how close I could get the sheets, so probably worth a test to see how it looks with a black layer. Vinyl would be fairly easy to cut out the segments on the cutter, and then easy to apply and remove if required.

[@gower1973]

Why didnt you just route out a channel positive and negative in each half of the case, it would of simply slotted together then

[@hifromkatie]

Yes, I've got another idea to cut a black opaque panel out for the slots which could then be mounted in a frame too, or slot to 2 halves. Unfortunately I forgot the check the size until I was just about to print, and our printer was running flat out at that moment and I just wanted it printed asap, so I v.quickly split the design and clicked send before heading out for the day! If I'd done anything that would have taken more than 30seconds it would have had to have waited until the evening and then would have been 24hours+ longer untill I had it in my hand :)