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Posted by tokyobreakfast 9 hours ago

Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock(github.com)
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tonymet 2 hours ago|
I'm sure there's huge demand for remote time sync . many buildings have dozens of these that need setting during daylight saving time change.
ChuckMcM 7 hours ago||
Pretty awesome. The only thing I would change is to put a USB battery between the usb wall power and the D1 mini. That way for power outages of < a couple of days or so you're clock will be fine.
amelius 6 hours ago||
What's the best way to periodically get time and date if your customers are big businesses with hostile IT departments?
kjs3 2 hours ago||
Most 'big businesses' I've delt with have a time server someplace internal. It may be a stand alone NTP server, a network device like a Cisco router or a Windows AD server. You might ask the network team/Windows admin team nice and see what they have.
Neywiny 6 hours ago|||
A great solution I've used plenty of times is to query websites like google.com. I use it whenever my rtc on my Linux laptop gets reset (as long as it's still in my history. Otherwise I just set it manually).

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/400176

btbuildem 6 hours ago||
GPS unit
retired 8 hours ago||
I’m curious how long it takes for the hands to drift to the point where the time difference is perceivable. Luckily the 30 millisecond pulse time is configurable.
accrual 8 hours ago||
It'd be interesting to see the logs or data on how the physical movement falls out of sync. It probably even correlates with temperature and humidity.
rballpug 7 hours ago||
Keeping time in terms of hash-sigs that are in 64 bit architecture instance.
jccooper 9 hours ago||
See also the "Ventinari clock": https://github.com/iracigt/ventinari-clock https://www.akafugu.jp/posts/products/vetinariclock/
dheera 9 hours ago||
Some years ago I made a ESP-based clock that used 60 LEDs in a circle that project RGB shadows via a cone at the center. I used the same WeMos D1 Mini board.

https://github.com/dheera/shadow-clock/

bityard 8 hours ago|
I remember seeing this on Hackaday. Very clever idea!
MrVitaliy 8 hours ago||
Cute, but the original clock used to run on AA battery that needs a replacement every two years or so, and now it needs a power supply. Or some big battery recharge/replacement every few hours maybe days.
greenie_beans 7 hours ago|
lol i just bought this same clock cuz it was cheap and had no tech except the clock
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