I am a complete novice to arduino and am probably jumping in at the deep end. I have some clocks in various parts of my garden that all have stepper motors running from a driver I made using the mains frequency to keep time. I then had the crazy idea of having a chime and hour strike as well. I have the chimes and striking mechanism made from pipes, solenoids, etc. which are activated by a small input to Darlington transistors. Currently I have a not very good mechanical sequencer for Winchester chimes and to improve it I want to control it electronically. I have been given an arduino mega so ideally would like to make use of it. From the master clock I have a 0.5Hz signal and a two second pulse every quarter hour. What I need is for the correct chimes to operate every quarter hour and the correct number of strikes on the hour. How feasible is this and would anyone be able to recommend a practical approach? Thank you.
Sounds totally feasible.Read the signals from your clocks to keep time (correct or not - at least it will be in sync with your clocks), and act upon it.
Of course you have to have a way to tell the Arduino what the current time is, so it knows in which quarter it is, when it's the hour, and which hour it is. An RTC comes to mind, so you don't have to set the time every time you power up the device.
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