Re:Show HN: Fine Wordclocks: more than a time piece, they ar...
by matt_the_bass on Sunday January 20, 2019 @09:15AM
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OP here. Thanks for your comment. This design currently displays the exact time every 5 minutes. The 2 minutes before and after each exact time have "ish" appended to the time.
There are a couple of reasons for this approach:
1. I wanted to have a square clock face but was limited by the LED strip spacing I could source conveniently. This limited me to an approximate number of characters.
2. With this character limit, this was the simplest way to display times. Personally, I don't think this is the type of clock requires every minute precision. The qlocktwo (mentioned in other comments) has the exact time every 5 minutes with 4 LEDs to indicate the other 4 minutes. That wasn't my preference.
3. Other designs I've made as gifts in the past were physically larger and included a bunch of other times including:
- almost (for 2 minutes before an exact time)
- about (for 2 minutes after an exact time)
- ish ("randomly" replaces almost or about)
- plus a bunch of other exact times that could be made from the existing exact time lexicon
- It's Now
- as well as some other cool easter eggs
This larger design has a pretty cool lexicon (IMHO) but is much bigger and I couldn't fit it nicely on the stock wood material I could find. I didn't want to join planks of wood and I wanted this design to be square.
I'm working on a present for my wife that include "in paris" (she's a French teacher) that can be added to any time (and obviously including the math for the timezone offset).
There are a couple of reasons for this approach:
1. I wanted to have a square clock face but was limited by the LED strip spacing I could source conveniently. This limited me to an approximate number of characters.
2. With this character limit, this was the simplest way to display times. Personally, I don't think this is the type of clock requires every minute precision. The qlocktwo (mentioned in other comments) has the exact time every 5 minutes with 4 LEDs to indicate the other 4 minutes. That wasn't my preference.
3. Other designs I've made as gifts in the past were physically larger and included a bunch of other times including:
- almost (for 2 minutes before an exact time)
- about (for 2 minutes after an exact time)
- ish ("randomly" replaces almost or about)
- plus a bunch of other exact times that could be made from the existing exact time lexicon
- It's Now
- as well as some other cool easter eggs
This larger design has a pretty cool lexicon (IMHO) but is much bigger and I couldn't fit it nicely on the stock wood material I could find. I didn't want to join planks of wood and I wanted this design to be square.
I'm working on a present for my wife that include "in paris" (she's a French teacher) that can be added to any time (and obviously including the math for the timezone offset).