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1.1. Background of The Study

Clocks have been used for centuries to consistently measure time intervals shorter than days, months, and years. They can be found in many places like homes, offices, public spaces, and as accessories. Clocks display the time through analog angles or digital numeric representations. Some clocks have alarms to wake people at preset times which may start softly and get louder. Training clocks help young children understand when it is time to sleep with visible indicators instead of reading the time. Microcontroller projects are popular today, especially in computer and electronics fields, because microcontrollers have memory and input/output resources on a single chip unlike microprocessors.

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1.1. Background of The Study

Clocks have been used for centuries to consistently measure time intervals shorter than days, months, and years. They can be found in many places like homes, offices, public spaces, and as accessories. Clocks display the time through analog angles or digital numeric representations. Some clocks have alarms to wake people at preset times which may start softly and get louder. Training clocks help young children understand when it is time to sleep with visible indicators instead of reading the time. Microcontroller projects are popular today, especially in computer and electronics fields, because microcontrollers have memory and input/output resources on a single chip unlike microprocessors.

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1.1.

Background of the Study

Clocks are in homes, offices and many other places. Smaller ones like watches
are carried on the wrist or in a pocket. Larger ones are in public places like on a railway
station or church. A small clock is often shown in a corner of computer displays, mobile
phones and many MP3 players.
The primary purpose of a clock is to display the time. Clocks may also have the
facility to make a loud alert signal at a specified time, typically to waken a sleeper at a
preset time, they are referred to as alarm clocks. The alarm may start at a low volume
and become louder, or have the facility to be switched off for a few minutes then
resume. Alarm clocks with visible indicators are sometimes used to indicate to children
too young to read the time that the time for sleep has finished, they are sometimes
called training clocks.
The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, meeting the need to consistently
measure intervals of time shorter than the natural units: the day, the lunar month, and
the year. Devices operating on several physical processes have been used over the
millennia. Analog clocks usually indicate time using angles. Digital clocks display a
numeric representation of time. Two numeric display formats are commonly used
on digital clocks: 24 hour notation and 12 hour notation. Most digital clocks use
electronic mechanisms and LCD, LED, or VFD displays. The evolution of the technology
of clocks continues today.

Microcontroller-based projects are usual and in demand nowadays


especially in the field of computer and electronics engineering.
Microcontrollers are known for its compactness because it has a program
memory, RAM, and input/output resources on a single chip while
microprocessors have its program memory, RAM, and input/output
externally.

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