WALL-E Clock & Lamp

That cute wall-e will give you time, a bit of light and a lot of love.

As you'll see, I integrated a resistive touch screen. It's not our smartphones' touch screen, which are capacitive screens. This one consumes very little energy (convenient to save battery). The downside is that it's a little less responsive, less fluid, but for this, it is more than enough.

Features:

•    Clock
•    Alarm clock
•    Lamp

That's simple and very cute.

Normally it's pretty easy to make it but you'll need to be patient.

I sell all components in my website: https://jeje-linge.fr/en/products/alarm-clock-and-wall-lamp

The battery: https://a.co/d/3ZW8Pab

Assemble the right and left wheels with the tracks.

Assemble the right and left arms.

I preferred a long arm to carry the bulb, and a shorter arm for the rest.

But you can make two long arms two short ones... As you want.

I'll start by putting a bit of grey wash on all the pieces.

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Then use grey and brown paint, to give a slightly rusty appearance.

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For the eyes, I'll add something that is not obligatory, but I think it gives a bit of style, it's small lenses (29mm).

Assemble the wheels to the lower piece.

Pay close attention, the big wheel, which go to the back.

I use wires with female connectors, because it's simpler than soldering.

We're not using the T_IRQ.

The T_DO, T_DIN and T_CLK will be solder direclty to the SDO, SDI and SCK

It will power the entire system.

Wire a 18650 battery to it.

The RTC module will allow you to have a reliable clock.

Don't put a battery at the back, it's useless.

Don't forget to put the MP3 files on the microSD card.

On the D+, put a red wire which will then go to the VCC.

On the D-, put a black wire which will go to the GND.

On the IN input, which controls the relay, to know if it is open or closed.

Solder a black and red wires on the bulb.

If the tin doesn't stick well enough, you can sand the connectors a little bit.

Solder 2 resistors together and add a wire in the middle for the tension to be divided.

This will give you an idea of the state of charge of the battery.

Connect every module to the ESP32.

Do not wire the battery to the GND Wago to avoid powering the whole thing.

What do first is connect the ESP to the PC and send the program.

Put your micro SD card into your PC and send the MP3 files on the micro-SD card.

Keep the MP3 folder don't put the files in the root.

Install the TFT_eSPI library.

Once the library is installed, you go to your documents, then in Arduino, Libraries and you should see it appear here.

In this folder, you have a file called User_setup.h

Open it in a text editor.

We're simply going to uncomment the lines (see picture)

Touch_CS we'll replace 21 by 5.

Go back to the Arduino IDE and click on upload.

Download the code here : https://github.com/jejelinge/WALL-E

First thing to do, insert the micro SD card in DFplayer with the MP3s on it.

Your screen should be in calibration mode, and asking you to touch the four corners.

You can now connect the battery.

First put the screen in the front part.

On the back, put the speaker.

Once the speaker's on, put the small power board in the hole of the back part.

Take the sides and glue them.

Take the light bulb arm, and the light bulb.

Pass wires one after the other through the arm.

Then, pass the wires through the hole, and force the arm in.

Put the second arm in the same way.

And finally, we put the head.