Show HN: Timechief – My Smartclock Project

by jmorriceon 7/1/23, 12:22 PMwith 19 comments
by jmorriceon 7/1/23, 12:22 PM

My Timechief Smartclock project. I think it is pretty cool and I want to share it with the world, but there is definitely a ways to go before (low-volume) manufacturing of units.

by totalconfusionon 7/1/23, 6:26 PM

An alarm clock with NTP. Finally. It reminds me of a Pip-Boy. Consider integrating a light source in to it and maybe some USB outs for charging

by jacknewson 7/1/23, 3:27 PM

Is the hardware necessary, it looks like it could just be an app on a cheap andorid phone/tablet?

by matmann2001on 7/1/23, 4:48 PM

Very cool.

Looks similar to my own project. I think we even used the same case for the display.

https://github.com/Mrjohns42/WeatherDash

by yjftsjthsd-hon 7/1/23, 4:12 PM

> By the way, one of the interesting things that came out of this was me learning to create custom Linux distributions. I ought to devote a blog to the topic. It’s a lot easier than you might think!

I would like to read that!