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You're completely right. If you had your phone you could just look at the phone time anyways :) As I mentioned in the conclusion, there wasn't really meant to

by jinay 5y ago

You're completely right. If you had your phone you could just look at the phone time anyways :) As I mentioned in the conclusion, there wasn't really meant to be any practical use for this project.

stavros 5y ago
You know what I call a project without a practical use? Art.
warrenm 5y ago
It's certainly an amusing rabbit trail, though :)
warrenm 5y ago
I could see a potential for usefulness if you wanted to categorize all of the images you had of clocks with what times are listed to be able to put them in [quasi] chronological order
- warrenm 5y ago
  And then - maybe - auto-select a clock image that matched the publish time, for example, of a blog post?
  - beatthatflight 5y ago
    there was a website that did this years ago. Manually selected, I presume, but any time of day it had a different clock with the correct time shown :) edit: and then there's this: https://humanclock.com/ https://humanclock.com/
technothrasher 5y ago
> there wasn't really meant to be any practical use for this project. I immediately thought of a (sort of) practical use for the project, syncing the time on a 20th century electric master/slave clock system. If you don't know, slave clocks ran off a master pendulum clock which sent them an electric pulse once every minute to advance their hands and keep them all in perfect sync. I built a master clock replacement out of an ESP32 dev board that keeps all my slave clocks correct using NTP, but I still have to manually adjust if they get out of sync due to a power outage. If the master clock could see them and read the dials, it could sync them without any intervention. Additionally, I've got an idea for a automatic time setting system for an 18th century grandfather clock that would be a lot easier if it could visually read the hands.

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You're completely right. If you had your phone you could just look at the phone time anyways :) As I mentioned in the conclusion, there wasn't really meant to

by jinay 5y ago

You're completely right. If you had your phone you could just look at the phone time anyways :) As I mentioned in the conclusion, there wasn't really meant to be any practical use for this project.

stavros 5y ago
You know what I call a project without a practical use? Art.
warrenm 5y ago
It's certainly an amusing rabbit trail, though :)
warrenm 5y ago
I could see a potential for usefulness if you wanted to categorize all of the images you had of clocks with what times are listed to be able to put them in [quasi] chronological order
- warrenm 5y ago
  And then - maybe - auto-select a clock image that matched the publish time, for example, of a blog post?
  - beatthatflight 5y ago
    there was a website that did this years ago. Manually selected, I presume, but any time of day it had a different clock with the correct time shown :) edit: and then there's this: https://humanclock.com/ https://humanclock.com/
technothrasher 5y ago
> there wasn't really meant to be any practical use for this project. I immediately thought of a (sort of) practical use for the project, syncing the time on a 20th century electric master/slave clock system. If you don't know, slave clocks ran off a master pendulum clock which sent them an electric pulse once every minute to advance their hands and keep them all in perfect sync. I built a master clock replacement out of an ESP32 dev board that keeps all my slave clocks correct using NTP, but I still have to manually adjust if they get out of sync due to a power outage. If the master clock could see them and read the dials, it could sync them without any intervention. Additionally, I've got an idea for a automatic time setting system for an 18th century grandfather clock that would be a lot easier if it could visually read the hands.