Something somewhat useful, and the main reason I started playing the the DS1307 real time clock, was to be able to accurately control events based on the current time. In the same way you can get a simple plug-in timer to turn on or off an appliance depending on the time, I wanted to be able to do the same with the Arduino.
I wrote a fairly wide-ranging RTC timer sketch that I posted to Github that will allow you to execute a given block of code or function based on a start and end time that you specify. Although the default sketch is simply turning on and off an LED connected to digital pin 2, there’s probably a lot of situations beyond just turning a light on or off that this could be used for.
Hopefully it’s useful, and it’s definitely something I’ll be incorporating in to other programs I’ll be writing 🙂
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