DISPLAY DATE AND TIME
Arduino Tutorial
I have only been using Arduino for about 2 months now. I bought a Keyestudio starter kit and I couldn't get Project 31: DS1302 Real Time Clock Module to work so I tried using a RTC DS3231. I wanted to be able to do a basic thing like print the time and date on a 1602 LCD i2C screen. I tried many sites and different code but I couldn't get it to work. After about 5 weeks I came across a YouTube video and visited the links provided. The code worked so I decided to publish this as my second project.
Libraries
I used the wire.h and LiquidCrystal.h libraries that come installed with the Arduino IDE. On Arduino IDE I used the New Liquid Crystal 1.5.1 by Fransisco Malpartida: https://bitbucket.org/fmalpartida/new-liquidcrystal/downloads/. On the Arduino Web Editor I used the Liquid Crystal Library from YWrobot. This can be found via a search in the Library Manager.
Once completed you can then build and actual clock.
Skills Practice
Electronics
Arduino IDE
LCD Practice
Real Time Clock
Components, Boards and Parts
Software and Apps
The Code
Next Steps
This whole process made me realize that I need to start paying more attention to the Arduino code and start learning it. I want to be able to manipulate the code more.