WordClock

It's a clock...with words.

• Solder the shield together
• Connect the shield to the Pi
• Connect a 5V, 4A power brick to the shield.
• Connect the Pi to Ethernet (This assumes the Pi is Running Raspbian Jessie)
• Log in via SSH
• Setup Timezone by running sudo raspi-config
• Configure RTC: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=125003
• Get the right python libraries: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-rgb-matrix-plus-real-time-clock-hat-for-raspberry-pi/driving-matrices
• Clone this repo on the PI (or at least the software directory) and navigate into it
• Run sudo make in the "matrix" directory - Python will bind to the rgbmatrix.so file that is generated.
• Make WordClock.py executable: chmod +x WordClock.py
• Add this to crontab (crontab -e): @reboot sudo /home/pi/WordClock.py > /dev/null 2>&1
• Reboot
• The ethernet is no longer needed, but you can connect it briefly to auto-update the time if the RTC drifts.

License

This work is licensed under the GNU GPL v3. Please share improvements or remixes with the community, and attribute me (Jeremy Blum, http://www.jeremyblum.com) when reusing portions of my code.