Hackaday did a "Tell Time Contest" that ended today, featuring this and other devices: https://hackaday.io/contest/168639-tell-time-contest
https://hackaday.io/project/167056-fetch-a-ferrofluid-displa... from that list is pretty amazing.
25-Hour Digital Myst Clock/Chronometer
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#32RIVEN SPOILERS I actually didn't play Riven until about 5 years ago, when it came out on iOS (I played Myst on CD as a kid). Learning the game's number system was a fascinating exercise that I don't think I've ever had in any other game. Basically, in your explorations you eventually happen upon a small empty one-room building, which (if you look at the arrangement of desks) you can deduce is some sort of schoolhouse…
Yea. I liked Myst, but Riven is where I gave up on the series. I did complete it, but it was a long time ago and I remember giving up on puzzles and looking up a lot of hints. Also the font for the books in Riven were terrible. I could read all the Myst books. They were relatively short and it was a neat device to learn the story. In Riven, they were painful to read and there were so many books everywhere. I even bou…
Riven was difficult, but that doesn't do the game justice in my book. To me the game is a masterpiece in how it integrates storytelling with the world design and the puzzles so tightly. I'd have to spoil parts of the game to give good examples. There's one particularly fiendish puzzle that connects the numbers puzzle with animals appearing all over the place and a series of places all over the world that have weird wooden spheres embedded in rocks. And you have to find a well-hidden secret chamber first to see that this connection might even be there.
This is also part of why the game is so difficult. It does expect the player go through a certain sequence of events to advance the plot. But all of this is in a very open world that presents you with a lot of puzzle pieces that you can't do anything with initially. This breadth of possible options makes it harder to identify those pieces that the game wants you to connect in the puzzles. I've read a long while ago that the Millers have underestimated how much this drives difficulty. They said that later Myst series titles are designed to be more sequential experiences with less interconnected pieces as a result.
Re: 25-Hour Digital Myst Clock/Chronometer
#33Sort of related question. I have an old clock with a 3 inch clock face that I want to change to be digital. Does anyone know where to get a 3 inch round led/lcd display (ideally that can be attached to a Raspberry Pi)? I've looked online and they are either crazy expensive, a round display on a square back, or I have to buy 1000 of them. I assume I'm just not googling right.
hmm, you're right 3" is hard. I find a number of relatively expensive 3.4" ones on aliexpress, but nothing 3". All sorts of cheap 1-2" ones.
So Aliexpress is the right place to look then?
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#34This might be the nerdiest thing I've seen all day and I love it.