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Timeotron 3000: a speed-climbing timer

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Speed climbing is about tenths of a second, so a speed wall needs a proper clock to go with it. Timeotron 3000 is a small microcontroller board with two buttons, start and stop, and a large display built from eight 8×8 LED matrix modules (MAX7219, 4×2) driven through the MD_MAXPanel library.

At power-up it runs a quick display test (00.0, 11.1 … 99.9). Pressing start begins counting, with the elapsed time shown to a tenth of a second, and stop freezes the result on the display until the next start, while the EasyButton library takes care of debouncing both buttons.

Timeotron 3000: start and stop buttons feed a microcontroller board that drives eight LED matrix modules showing the timestartstopmicrocontrollerdebounces both buttons8 LED matrix modules (MAX7219), 4 by 2
Timeotron 3000: two buttons, a microcontroller and eight LED matrix modules

This was the first of my timing devices for climbing gyms, the ones that later became part of Backdoor.

Source on GitHub.

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