We did it! We got our circuit to work finally!! So pleased that it works after what seems like forever. Here is how we did it:
Downloaded the driver – this is super important because we bought counterfeit arudino nano’s meaning we needed a different driver as it kept saying there wasn’t enough memory on the nano to store the code (which is crazy because its a pretty short code). The link for the driver is below.
Downloaded adafruit neopixel library – this can be done by opening Arduino going to the drop down bar SKETCH scrolling down to include library and finally manage libraries where you can search and download libraries. Downloaded RTClib library using above instructions.
Changed pin from 6 to 8 on the code in Arduino.The verify and upload. The code should have started working fine after this but it still wasn’t working – turns out we accidentally connected SDA to analog 5 and SCL to analog 4 – meaning they were the wrong way around! Hunter found a link about wiring the RTC which helped troubleshoot these issues, the link can be found below.
Once we had the RTC connected we uploaded the code again and it worked somewhat perfectly- the seconds became a bit glitchy due to the RTC losing connection with the wires and therefore neopixels as nothing had been soldered yet. Once everything get soldered together everything should run smoothly. The video for the working code/neopixel strip can be found by clicking the links below.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JDHsg1TY-6r11jSXIu2l_pAG4V2KUaop/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ko1Lp2zNrjFq-ao0thpVUZzTOGtz7S12/view?usp=sharing
I also took heaps of photos of the circuit incase it gets disassembled.
Elizabeth Dean 