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ATMEGA 8 is one of the cheapest micro controller ,so i decided to make clock using it.The first thing i came across is displaying time hence most general thing is 7 segment display but i can’t display all the text expect few ,so i decided to go with 16X2 LCD .Then i came time keeping where recent most of the micro controller offer internal RTC(Real Time Clock) but ATMEGA 8 we don’t have internal RTC so i went with external one.Then i came across power the clock ,atmega can run from 1.8v to 5v so i planned to 1s lipo,it worked pretty well…so let start building”

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