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It looks really cool, but just one suggestion -- your homepage has four example pictures showing "It's eight o'clock" and all of the others are for "round" numb

It looks really cool, but just one suggestion -- your homepage has four example pictures showing "It's eight o'clock" and all of the others are for "round" numbers of minutes. I'd really be interested in seeing how it handles something like "11:13" or "11:59," non-round numbers. That would be a lot of the appeal in something like this for me, I think...

ithkuil 8y ago
I noticed that some pictures show the suffixe "ish" right at the bottom right corner (I think it's a clever trick; wonder if it's boring to basically always see that word lit up since it's less likely that a time is round)
- matt_the_bass 8y ago
  Thanks for your feedback. That's a valid comment about ish persistence. However, I haven't noticed that during my own use.
matt_the_bass 8y ago
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).

ithkuil 8y ago

I noticed that some pictures show the suffixe "ish" right at the bottom right corner (I think it's a clever trick; wonder if it's boring to basically always see that word lit up since it's less likely that a time is round)

matt_the_bass 8y ago
Thanks for your feedback. That's a valid comment about ish persistence. However, I haven't noticed that during my own use.

matt_the_bass 8y ago

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).