I have cobbled together bits from the arduino Time library and the FastLED2 library, led segments ordered and are on the way, RTC is kicking about in a drawer somewhere.

Need to decide on colourscheme/UI decisions.

initially, just a clock with time set from serial port, but would like an alarm feature too

therefore buttons may be needed OR and IR interface (i have a few remotes kicking around)

if buttons or IR i need to show what mode im in. for editing h/m/s i can flash the pixel. if in alarm mode, make background dim red instead of black? maybe.

Clock first, other things later.

so for the first version:

H/M/S using R/G/B with ability to set/get time from serial connection.

this can be tested with other RGB strip until the actual circle arrives.