I wanted an Every Day Calendar that would dim at night when I completed my goal of going to bed on time. As you can imagine, a bright board of glowing lights isn't the best for sleeping. Thankfully the Every Day Calendar has a helpful programming port and the default firmware is online for free. I added a few tweaks that make the calendar better for use near bedtime. Whenever you touch a day:
- The calendar brightness dims
- The calendar only shows the beginning and end of your most recent streak of days
After 8 hours the calendar will wake out of dark mode so you view all your touched days during the daytime.
The calendar also temporarily shows all the touched days if you touch one while in dark mode. To exit dark mode early, just touch either of the brightness buttons.
The rest of the original Readme is below for reference. These changes to the board firmware are licensed under the MIT license too.
This repository contains firmware and schematics of the Every Day Calendar project.
Please note that this is a finished project. The files are provided as is and we will not be maintaining this repository.
To download the firmware and schematic files, run the following command on your terminal:
git clone https://gitlab.com/simonegiertz/the-every-day-calendar.git
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Power on the Every Day Calendar with a 5V adapter and connect the calendar to your computer using a USB Type-B to USB Typ-A cable.
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Open the Arduino IDE
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Configure the board type to Arduino Pro or Pro Mini
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Configure the processor and clock speed to Atmega328P (3.3V, 8MHz)
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Copy the contents of this repository's firmware > libraries directory into your computer's Arduino libraries folder.
- Typically that's located in Documents/Arduino/libraries
Note: If more instruction is needed, follow Arduino's guide: https://www.arduino.cc/en/guide/libraries
To test and see if the custom libraries are working, you can run our sample code provided in the firmware > sketches directory of this Github repository. Simply upload one of the sample code files onto the calendar using the Arduino IDE, open the Serial Monitor and set the baud rate to 9600.
Once everything is working, you're ready to play with the Every Day Calendar! Have fun!
The contents of this repository are released under the following licenses for hardware and software:
- Hardware: CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- Software: MIT License: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT