Microsoft Build 2024 Countdown Clock

the Microsoft build conference is the place to be  for developers leveraging Microsoft's platforms   or doing any kind of coding with a Windows PC  and just a few days ago we announced that the   conference would be held from May 21st to the  23rd both online and iners in Seattle since   this is such an important date in the windows  calendar I wanted to do a little something   special I wanted to make a build conference  countdown clock so I'd always know how many   days we have left to prepare for the show now  I bought a bunch of different OLED displays   for the watcher winder project I've been hacking on  and I've got this extra 2.4 in display that I   thought would be perfect I also had a spare  Arduino Nano and I bought a USBC charging   module and 18650 battery from AliExpress for  just a few dollars my goal was to get this all   put together in an afternoon and here's how I  did it first I got the basic components hooked   up by wiring the power and I2C lines  from the Nano to the screen then I was ready to   get cating and hooked it up to my Windows PC  I've always used the Arduino IDE for my past   projects but I saw that there's an Arduino vs  code extension so I wanted to give that a try   I installed the extension and used the board  manager to configure things for my offbrand   Nano I also had the GitHub co-pilot and chat  extensions installed and I used them extensively   on this project here I used it to the function  that would scan for the I2C address of the screen and then I use co-pilot to  help me write some simple hello   world code and I made sure that that worked on my device then it was Off to the Races I built a  simple clock and added the date and co-pilot   wrote me a function that advanced the day taking  into account the days in each month and leap years it also wrote the function that  calculated how many days from now until build in well under an hour I had the sketch all  coated up I didn't have time for buttons so to set   the time and date I just used the serial Port  the vs code serial monitor work great for this then I soldered up the charging module and   battery and made sure it all  worked when unplugged from the PC most of my projects don't just work but I  was very happy when this one did time to finish   it all up I launched Fusion 360 and started  designing the case first I built a sketch of   the screen with Dimensions I you I measured with  my digital caliper then I built the Box around it the screen is held on by four little posts  and a good amount of hot glue this is a quick   and dirty project so plenty of hot glue was  used I finished it up with a nice build logo   and exported the meshes for my slicer I  wanted to use two different colors so I   exported one G-Code for the logo and  one for the box then I got my trusty   prusa Mark III off and running and had some  dinner and played some fortnite pile printed that first print looked good so I switched  to Black filament and got the second print started the next day I had had all the  pieces and I was ready to assemble I   started with the charging module making sure  the USBC Port would be accessible from the back then I glued in the battery and  started working on the screen pushing   it onto the posts and dropping  some more dabs of hot glue then   I slid in the build logo and put it all  together with these cool brass screws I had and there you go a fun little reminder of  the upcoming conference and a cool desk   trinket if you're interested in building  this yourself leave a comment below and   I'll share out the mesh's code and let me  know if you find these maker style projects   interesting or not thanks for watching and  if you'd like to hear more about how we've   engineered windows for developers hit that  subscribe button or reach out to me on thread cheers

Channel: Cory Hendrixson

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Length: 5min 1sec (301 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 06 2024