Arduino Pro Mini day counter

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I found a cool valentines day project online that counts the days you and your significant other have been together. Despite never using arduino before, I foolishly attempted to complete this project. Can anyone help me out, so far I have tried to follow what this guy did: Valentineduino – Vegard Paulsen

The problem is that I cant load the code onto the arduino, and I also dont know what pins to use for the 7 segment display or Real Time Clock. code can be found here: valentineduino/Valentineduino Arduino code at master · subsoniq/valentineduino · GitHub

Valentines day is tomorrow ( my fiance and I will celebrate friday though) so any help would be very appreciated!!!

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What RTC? What display? What did you try already? Which Arduino board?

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Sorry for not including that,

I used all the parts from that blog link, but here they are too,
Arduino pro mini: http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9218
USB for Arduino: http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9716
7 segment dispay: SparkFun 7-Segment Serial Display - Red - COM-11441 - SparkFun Electronics
And the RTC: http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10160

So far I connected the USB to the Arduino and successfully linked it to my computer, as well as soldering what wires go onto the 7 seen display, but I can o ly find where they belong there, not what pi s they connect to on the RTC or Arduino.
The other problem is connecting it to power. I bought a standard barrel Jack and I'm not sure which pins are which. Finally, when I try to upload the code it says that no such lbrary exist and highlights the first line of the code.

Thank you so much for your help, much appreciated

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Don't you think it would by now make sense to include that code and the error message itself? (do use code tags when posting code)

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I included a link to the code in the first post, but here it is Again: valentineduino/Valentineduino Arduino code at master · subsoniq/valentineduino · GitHub

I'm not at home right now to see the exact error message, but it happened in the first line "#include <DallasTemperature.h>" , saying no such directory existed. I tried deleting it, but the same thing happened with the next line of code. (I don't know what you mean by code tags, sorry, this is my first forum post)

The author of the code said he used this box to also detect temperature and send it to a weather station he built, and to just ignore that if your just using it for the day counter.
Attached below shows what pins I already hooked up, but I don't know where they go to on the RTC or Arduino

Once again, thanks for any help

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I can't make sense of the Valenduino code, but this link may help:

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/using-the-serial-7-segment-display/all

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taz5963:
\I'm not at home right now to see the exact error message, but it happened in the first line "#include <DallasTemperature.h>" , saying no such directory existed.

That's for the DS18B20 temperature sensor. You have to install that library.