Microcontroller
Based Propeller Clock
Group : MPA11
Naman Sharma
Mohit Singh
Divya Gaihar
CONTENT
Abstract
Introduction
Working Principle
Functional Block Diagram
Components description
Result
ABSTRACT
Propeller
clock is a special kind of circular
LED display which makes use of principle of
POV, Persistence of Vision.
Maintenance
and repairing of the display is
so easy, that anyone having a little
electronics knowledge can take care of this.
The
software part of clock works using
interrupts and timers.
INTRODUCTION
Propeller is a term associated with a circular rotating
object. So, the term Propeller.
This project using bright light emitting diodes
for displaying the characters and symbols on its assembly.
This is the phenomenon which is related to vision
capability of human eye by which an afterimage is thought
to persist for approximately 1/25th of a second. So, if
someone is observing the images at a rate of 25 images
per second,then they appear to be continuous.
First made by Prof. Bob Blick in 1997
Hardware Description
WORKING PRINCIPLE
The
Main Part of the propeller clock is Microcontroller
AT89S52.
The IR LED, which is stationary, is fixed on the base of
rotating assembly
It consists of IR LED and Photodiode mounted facing
each other enclosed in plastic body. When light
emitted by the IR LED is blocked because of some
completely opaque object, logic level of the photo
diode changes. This change in the logic level can be
sensed by the microcontroller or by discrete hardware
Logic 0 level at the output of port0 will result in
illumination of LED.
LED Module
LED
module consisting of 7bright LED is
fixed in another side of the arm of our
project.
These
LEDs are connected with each of the
port pin of microcontroller, with a series
current limiting resistor of 470 ohm.
DC Motor
Repeated
scanning of the display is must for
continuous vision.
This task is achieved using circular rotation
of the whole circuit assembly. So, we used a
DC motor as the prime mover
Interrupter Module
Interrupter module is our sensor module, consisting of
the IR interrupt sensor MOC7811, from Motorola Inc.
This sensor was selected because of its small size,
precise interrupt sensing.
One great advantage of using this module is,
interfacing it with the microcontroller is just a matter
of two resistors and a general purpose transistor.
MOC7811 is the sensing part of the interrupter
module, while rest of the circuitry works as signal
conditioning circuit.
It consists of IR LED and Photodiode
mounted facing each other enclosed in
plastic body. When light emitted by the IR
LED is blocked because of some completely
opaque object, logic level of the photo diode
changes.
This change in the logic level can be
sensed by the microcontroller or by discrete
hardware.
Microcontroller AT89C2051
This project is based around the
microcontroller AT89C2051, which is a
derivative of 8051 family, from Atmel Inc.
This is a 20 pin IC packaged in DIP package.
This small sized IC is used, mainly because
of its reduced weight. This improves the
performance of the display, because
reduced weight gives advantage of
increased RPM.
Mechanical Assembly
Mechanical assembly plays a vital role in
proper functioning of this project. The display
is scanned each time, by rotating the whole
assembly in a circular path.
As seen in the diagram, one supply connection
(GND) is provided through the motors shaft.
Other terminal (Vcc) is connected, by
arranging a friction disc-brush arrangement.
The brush keeps its contact with the disc, so
that current can be supplied.
Most critical objective was to achieve
pristine balance and overall good mechanical
strength. For weight adjustment, we have
provided one long screw, and weight can be
attached or removed by adding / removing
metallic bolts. If the assembly is balanced
perfect, then it can achieve stability, and
rotate at high RPMs too. This will improve the
overall efficiency of this display.
Circuit
MOC7811
5V
12
V
GND
D C Power Supply
A fixed voltage power supply producing constant +5V
consists of a bridge rectifier, filter capacitors and 3 terminal
regulator IC LM7805. The 12v ac is obtained from the output
of an step down transformer. This power supply is
capable of supplying +5v and load current up to 500mA.
Input capacitor is used to improve transient response of the
regulator IC, i.e. response of regulator to sudden changes in
load. It is also helpful in reducing the noise present in the
output. Dropout voltage (Vin-Vout) needs to be at least 2V
under all operating conditions for proper operation of
regulator. For microcontroller and led we are giving the supply
by connecting the output of IC LM7805 which is
inputted by the 12v battery (which is placed on the pcb).
Applications
It
can be used to replace various public LCD
screens thereby providing acheapersolution
It
can also be used as a stopwatch.
Once
developed at a large scale and used with
multicolor LEDs can be used to replace LCD
screen