{"id":13558,"date":"2017-06-01T10:23:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T14:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?p=13558"},"modified":"2017-06-01T10:23:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T14:23:58","slug":"another-esp8266-internet-clock-using-led-matrix-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/another-esp8266-internet-clock-using-led-matrix-panels\/","title":{"rendered":"Another ESP8266 internet clock using LED matrix panels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet has made it easy for computers to synchronize their clocks to an accurate clock value generated by a remote server. We discussed earlier how to make <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/making-a-simple-esp8266-internet-clock\/\" target=\"_blank\">ESP8266-based internet clocks<\/a><\/strong> that utilizes National Institute of Standards and Technology&#8217;s (NIST) NTS service to retrieve accurate time information and display it on a 4-digit seven segment LED display and on a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/tutorial-8-esp8266-internet-clock\/\" target=\"_blank\">TFT display<\/a><\/strong>. This <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/brandsoulmates\/utc-clock\" target=\"_blank\">article from Ayzenberg<\/a><\/strong> describes a similar ESP8266-based internet clock that displays time on a large 16&#215;72 LED matrix panel. It also features APIs for displaying messages or setting the display brightness.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13559\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/utcclock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13559\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13559\" src=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/utcclock.jpg\" alt=\"ESP8266 internet clock with LED matrix panel\" width=\"800\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/utcclock.jpg 800w, https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/utcclock-580x295.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ESP8266 internet clock with LED matrix panel<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet has made it easy for computers to synchronize their clocks to an accurate clock value generated by a remote server. We discussed earlier how to make ESP8266-based internet clocks that utilizes National Institute of Standards and Technology&#8217;s (NIST) NTS service to retrieve accurate time information and display it on a 4-digit seven segment LED display and on a TFT display. This article from Ayzenberg describes a similar ESP8266-based internet clock that displays time on a large 16&#215;72 LED matrix panel. It also features APIs for displaying messages or setting the display brightness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1044,958],"tags":[1673,1436],"class_list":["post-13558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esp8266","category-internet-of-things","tag-esp8266-led-matrix","tag-internet-clock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13560,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13558\/revisions\/13560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}