This cool digital alarm clock submitted to me by Nick Hardeman. Nick writes:
The Morning Monster is a plush electronic alarm clock. He has all of the normal alarm functions, set time, set alarm, snooze, etc. However, what makes him a monster is his ability to shine the sun on your face when the alarm goes off by opening the blinds. The blinds are also manually controlled my moving his left arm up and down and he will never over-crank them!
Arduino based rss reader is an enhanced integration between Arduino and Internet connection. This project using python to read the feed and send serially to Arduino then display on LCD. This project could be expanded to use with any website that has rss feed service such as read your facebook status, stock quotes, weather report, or twitter status. [link]
LCD is a common electronic component used in many microcontroller projects. Here is a nice example and description by Chris.
The Arduino software comes with a built in library for interfacing with Liquid Crystal Displays (LCD). The LiquidCrystal library lets you drive a 4-bit or 8-bit parallel LCD display. This example shows how to wire and program an Arduino and a 16×2 4-bit LCD display.
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