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It's cool I like it, but seems a little overkill on the HW. no matter. One thing though, how is the screen 1080px1080 ? Is it a 1080p square, with the visible pixles a circle cut out of that ? I doubt it's a non rectilinear pixel grid. i guess it's x y coords, rather than cartesian ?
I doubt it's polar if that's what you mean.
Author here! :) This article is me sharing something that made me really happy, wanting to show others how they can do the same. I see some comments pointing out that the clock wouldn't need to run in the browser. I picked this option to make it simple for folks around me to quickly prototype their own clock faces. This isn't supposed to be the cheapest or most efficient implementation, either; feel free to build you…
> The Pi 3B+ seems just enough to render some simple animations. > I think a Pi 4 might be a good sweet spot between processing power and price, I know this isn't exactly a serious product and more of a gadget/gimmick but man we are off by a factor of like 3-4 here :D
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If they didn’t use an entire browser to render the clock face this seems like it could be an Arduino/ESP32-esque project.
Driving HDMI is way harder then you would guess; extremely fast timing to hit. A naive framebuffer alone won't fit in RAM, whilst not strictly needed it would make it a hard challenge.
Drawing something as simple as this with a browser is peak overkill. If the watch had a unreal-like PBR graphics diorama for example, gigabytes would at least be argued for.
Maybe you'll love my minimalist clock design https://euclid.tulv.in/
Nice, is there a physical clock that works this way?
Now I'll have to dig it out of storage.
I am currently building a project ( http://www.screenwall.app ) that tries to reuse old phones and tablets (that some people have in the drawer unused) as widget displays. Seeing such cool widgets always tempt me to buy it, although I know that my old Samsung A6 is perfectly capable for such things as well. :D
Author here! :) This article is me sharing something that made me really happy, wanting to show others how they can do the same. I see some comments pointing out that the clock wouldn't need to run in the browser. I picked this option to make it simple for folks around me to quickly prototype their own clock faces. This isn't supposed to be the cheapest or most efficient implementation, either; feel free to build you…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
If they didn’t use an entire browser to render the clock face this seems like it could be an Arduino/ESP32-esque project.
Driving HDMI is way harder then you would guess; extremely fast timing to hit. A naive framebuffer alone won't fit in RAM, whilst not strictly needed it would make it a hard challenge.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Driving HDMI is way harder then you would guess; extremely fast timing to hit. A naive framebuffer alone won't fit in RAM, whilst not strictly needed it would make it a hard challenge.
An FPGA project then! Which reminds me, I should really try some...