“This is real-time clock based automatic LED lamp which we originally designed to use as night light. This lamp can programmed to turn on and off at the specific time of the day. For example, it can program to turn on at 6 PM on each day and to turn off at 4 AM next day.
The core component of this project is PIC16F883 MCU and it’s firmware is developed using MikroC Pro for PIC. We select this MCU because of it’s 7 KB flash memory, I2C, UART, E2PROM and built-in 8-bit and 16-bit timers. In this system we use DS1307 RTC because of it’s availability in the market and lower external component count.
LED module
This lamp is designed to work with commonly available 7W LED panels. In our prototype design we use 7W 24V warm-white LED module to test this system. To drive other LED modules change value of the R5 resistor of the current limiter circuit.”