Freedom Seeed Grove 4-Digit Display Example

Dependencies:   DigitDisplay mbed

Fork of frdm_Grove_4-Digit-Display_Example by Freescale

Simply Import this Program into your mbed compiler
Select Compile to generate the binary file
Plug the Grove Shield v2 on the top of your FRDM-K64F
Connect on end of the 4-pin Grove cable to the 4-digit display module and the other end to the port D2 of the Grove Adapter.

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Drag n drop the frdm_Grove_4-Digit-Display_Example_K64F.bin into the mbed drive from your file explorer
Wait for download to complete
Press the Reset/SW1 button of your FRDM-K64F board to launch the program

The screen should start displaying a clock with time defined at 20:14 and middle dots blinking every seconds (see picture below)!!

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Revision:
0:06b1107d127e
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+++ b/main.cpp	Fri Jan 01 17:19:06 2016 +0000
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+#include "mbed.h"
+#include "DigitDisplay.h"
+
+DigitalOut myled(LED1);
+
+DigitDisplay display(D2, D3);
+
+Ticker tick;
+
+uint8_t hour   = 20;
+uint8_t minute = 14;
+uint8_t second = 0;
+
+void beat()
+{
+    static uint8_t colon = 0;
+    
+    display.setColon(colon);
+    if (colon) {
+        second++;
+        if (second >= 60) {
+            second = 0;
+            minute++;
+            if (minute >= 60) {
+                minute = 0;
+                
+                hour++;
+                if (hour >= 24) {
+                    hour = 0;
+                }
+                display.write(0, hour / 10);
+                display.write(1, hour % 10);
+            }
+            display.write(2, minute / 10);
+            display.write(3, minute % 10);
+        }
+    }
+    colon = 1 - colon;
+}
+
+int main() {
+    display.write(0, hour / 10);
+    display.write(1, hour % 10);
+    display.write(2, minute / 10);
+    display.write(3, minute % 10);
+    display.setColon(true);
+    tick.attach(&beat, 0.5);
+    while(1) {
+        myled = 1;
+        wait(0.5);
+        myled = 0;
+        wait(0.5);
+    }
+}