HN when big tech releases some uninspired new feature: "Amazing, life changing!"<p>HN when an individual makes something and sells it: "Here's why it's shit and I actually hate it"<p>It's even more ridiculous since this is a project being sold on Tindie, a website for people to sell their small time electronic hobby projects.
I don't understand why in the age of dirt cheap Espressif modules people keep doing DIY clocks with micros that don't have WiFi for S/NTP. It's the same with a lot of the expensive nixie clocks. At least throw in an RTC!<p>At the other end of the (colourfulness) spectrum the Ulanzi TC-001 and the awtrix-light firmware makes for a great visually fun clock that can also do notifications and various other stuff.
I'm actually shopping on the usual sites for an old-school red-LED clock that isn't too bright, so I can roll over late at night and see the time without waking up much. (My Pixel 6 Pro with GrapheneOS has a very nice and dim clock display, but I want to take the phone out of my room and put it in a different room, so that I'm not tempted to pick it up and start checking things.)<p>Maybe even one that actually receives (wait for it) .. <i>radio</i>.
> The body is printed on 3D printer with textured bed which brings interesting finish to the surfaces<p>if they could instead put this in a slimmer case, maybe something aluminum or otherwise non-diy-looking, that would be great for their value prop.
I think epaper works in a similar way to lcd, ie appplying an electric field across some kind of reactive layer - polarizing liquid crystals, tiny charged colored spheres, etc?<p>I only ever see high-resolution epaper matrices, but in principle I think you should be able to have much simpler epaper segment displays and so on, just like for lcds. Is there some reason this is not a thing?<p>For this clock, cool as it is, lack of a backlight seems to limit it to being a desk clock. I can see a larger epaper display working well as a wall clock, but it would have to be much cheaper than a full high-resolution matrix display, hence my comment above.
I would love an e-ink/e-paper display on this style of alarm clock.<p><a href="https://reverb.com/au/item/58940051-sony-dream-machine-icf-c470mk2-dual-alarm-fm-am-led-clock-radio" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://reverb.com/au/item/58940051-sony-dream-machine-icf-c...</a><p>A generic cube/rectangle shaped alarm clock does not appeal to me. Your hand is going to be <i>thwacking</i> or pressing buttons in a daze...<p>Something that is strong, with no sharp edges and finger wells on (or around) buttons, really helps me imagine using the clock.
I'm... not seeing the added value, it's not particularly attractive, it lacks features (like a backlight, multiple alarms), the 15:25 time is wonky and looks like it was edited, the menu is basic and not very well designed, etc. Someone's trying to sell their at home IoT project but didn't spend the time to add value.
Like the idea, but e-ink display makes it far from minimalistic. Had it been an LCD display (either with digits, or dot matrix), that would be electro punky. And it can be driven with ATTiny instead of -Mega.<p>OTOH, their wristwatch, with same clumsy font, looks good -- especially when every macho wears with a big waker clock on his wrist.
Looks like a Playdate (<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playdate_(console)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playdate_(console)</a>).
It's sad that "1 year battery life" is an advertised thing for a clock.<p>I just replaced the batteries for the first time on an LCD clock I got <i>decades</i> ago.