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After some initial testing I decided to up the ante on the phi-2 shield display area and released this variant:



My phi_prompt library is better utilized on this larger display. Here's my alarm clock version 4 on the shield:



The project code conforms to the size of the display (16X2, or 20*4), just set the #define to your display size.

The project code is on this page: (in the middle)

http://liudr.wordpress.com/shields/phi-2-shield/

Now a lot more projects can be better done on this shield. I will still be offering the variant with 16X2 displays since most projects can be accommodated with 16X2 display.

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Looks very good, will they be available in Europe too?

wrt the application:  I wonder why you have to set the day of the week when you have set the year, month and day allready?

Rob

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Rob,

Thank you! Yes, I can ship to Europe. Here is a link to the shield:

http://www.inmojo.com/store/liudr-arduino-and-physics-gadgets/item/phi-2-interactive-arduino-shield-2004/

Regarding the day of the week, I don't really know if the DS1307 can figure out day of the week from yy/mm/dd. I'll check the docs but I suspect the DOW is just a counter that increments when hour counter overflows.

BTW, I have a GPS unit right below the display but I've not connected the GPS unit to the shield yet. I suppose I can also enable time zone according to GPS. Will read up on that first. I don't know how difficult it is to do that though as the time zones are not all straight