Basketball Game Clock

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Everyone has a passion in basketball. Basketball enthusiast never missed a single game played by their favorite team, and there were times that they wanted to speed up time or to add more time, depending if their bet-team is loosing or winning. Nevertheless, time is an important not just in basketball, but for every sports and in every day of our life. Sad to say, I cannot teach you how to speed up time but I will teach you how to make the digital clock in the basketball. 

The plan

· Knowing the time.

- as far as I am concerned, 1 quarter in basketball is about 10 or 15 minutes. Since there are many possibilities of time per quarter we want to make a digital clock which can be set from 10 minutes to 15 minutes. Though we can make a basketball clock which starts at 99:99 and set it manually, I will teach you to make a basketball clock which will start at 15:59 and you can set it from there.

· Design the minutes and seconds hand of the game clock

- I already made a tutorial regarding extracting the second and the minute hand of the basketball game clock. You can read the instruction from this post of mine and come back here after you made it.

The second-hand circuit of the basketball game clock

The minute-hand circuit of the basketball game clock

The two figures are the final second and minute hand of our basketball game clock.

· Simulate the designed circuit

- Since we are already done making the circuit diagram of our game clock, we can test it with our circuit simulator to see if it is running properly. Then after simulating we buy the materials needed.

·         Buying of the materials
Materials
pieces
7-segment LCD display
200 ohms resistors
10k resistors
7448
7408
74190
7414
Capacitors 10nF
(momentary) Push button Switch
DPDT switch
(Non   momentary) switch
4 pcs
28 pcs
4 pcs
4 pcs
1 pcs
4 pcs.
1 pc.
4 pcs
4 pcs.
1 pcs
1 pc.

That’s it. Here is the final circuit of the basketball game clock.


Final Circuit of the Basketball Game clock



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Paul Ryan A. Dedumo is a blogger and an Electronics and Communication Engineering student at University of San Carlos. Learn and inspire as you follow him in his links, blog and other social media accounts.


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