Out of curiosity, have you tried Teleduino?
https://www.teleduino.org/
It's free and works quite well.

Well done, it's always refreshing to see new approaches to these sorts of things.

I wanted to add some custom characters, and it was fiddly designing them by hand. I also wanted to see what the text lines looked like without constantly counting characters in strings.

So I wrote a little utility to help. I am curious if anyone would be interested in the app - it's Windows only, sorry.

It looks like this:



If there's any interest, I just need somewhere to upload it. If there's something better already in existence, great, please let me know

Hi Aaron

That looks like a great app, we'd be happy to host that for you if you like. Email john at freetronics dot com.

Well done, glad to see you're enjoying the kit.
http://www.freetronics.com/products/experimenters-kit-for-arduino

Today we've released our CUBE4: RGB LED cube kit - http://www.freetronics.com/products/cube4-4x4x4-rgb-led-cube

This stunning 3D-matrix of 64 RGB LEDs incorporates an onboard Arduino-compatible controller so you can produce mesmerising light shows controlled by software. Use it as a mood light, or create your own “ambient device” that gently notifies you of new email or instant messages. The Cube4 is supplied as a partly-assembled kit: the controller board is fully assembled with all surface mount parts already fitted. You just need to solder in the LEDs and assemble the 3D matrix.

The Cube4 comes with a sketch pre-installed that runs through a test pattern and listens to the serial port for other commands. Once you have assembled your Cube4 you can connect to it using a serial monitor (such as the one built in to the Arduino IDE) and send simple commands to create your own patterns. You can also upload your own sketches using the Arduino IDE and the Cube4 library, which makes it easy for you to define your own animations and displays - for example: http://youtu.be/c8hrxd72H2E

It's shipping now and fully documented with instructions, examples and more - please visit http://www.freetronics.com/products/cube4-4x4x4-rgb-led-cube for more information.

It made me smile!, love it!! lol

Quality build, all the other kids will want one now.

And a few adults...

if you have the RTC working and displaying the time on the LCD, insert a test in void loop() to check if the (for example) 'select' button is pressed.
Then you could call a function that reads the five buttons, using up/down to adjust a value for hours (0-23) and left/right for minutes (0/59) - then when select is pressed the new time is set.

Check this out - already funded so it will go ahead:
http://www.pozible.com/project/18609

Have you considered using an Arduino Mega instead?

Hi,
I am looking to build a LED Clock using the following
* Freetronics Arduino Eleven Board
* Freetronics Real Time Clock with RAM
* Freetronics Dot Matrix Display 32x16

The idea is to Display the Time in 24Hr on one line and the Date on the second line (03-Jan). I have tried and cant get my head around how to do this. What i am looking for is someone to help me with writing the code for this. Once someone has helped me with the code i will be able to work it out for future upgrades. I am looking to put this in a fire station in there operations room.

Regards
Ben

How did you go with your project?

The DMD certainly works with the Mega (and any other Arduino-compatible board with 5V SPI). You don't need to alter any code or libraries.
Just run separate wires from the connector board that comes with the DMD to the matching on your Mega

connector board > Mega (etc)

GND > GND
13 > D52
12 > D50
11 > D51
10 > D53
9 > D9
8 > D8
7 > D7
6 > D6

E.g.


You can see the connector board schematic here:
http://www.freetronics.com/collections/display/products/dot-matrix-display-32x16-red

Yes. My first Arduino  was the Australian EtherTen. It uses the micro USB connector, as do all Freetronics clones. Needless to say, the Etherten also comes with an RJ45 Ethernet jack. The short proto board shown above is designed to clear the RJ45 with standard pins.

Nice work with the shield

Very well done. Have you considered trying out teleduino for off-site remote control?
https://www.teleduino.org/

For some ideas and inspiration, have a look over at http://www.superhouse.tv/episode
Jon is in the process of a whole-home automation system.

That's awesome. A larger servo and a high-pressure water blaster could be a fun addition, or a water-misting for wider visual effects.