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On this episode of SKTRSB, we are going show you a simple recipe on how to make a Raspberry Pi clock in just a few months and for barely three times the price of 10 regular branded clocks

Ingredients

• 1 Raspberry Pi
• 1 Unicorn HAT
• 3 Ninja diffusers
• 2 Frosted diffusers
• 5½ Plastic twisties
• 1 Smartphone holder

Directions

🕐 Connect Unicorn HAT to Raspi

🕜 Setup Python 3 with all dependencies

🕠 Learn basics before failing miserably

yeeah, that’s not 2…

🕓 Improvise and try not to be too lame

omg, so romantic, wow, such marry material

🕙 Get bored and forget the project

🕑 Return after a few months and download our code with marvelous representation of digits

🕝 Set /sys/class/leds/led?/brightness to 0 via cron, if you don’t want Sirius A in the bedroom

🕞 Add code reference to rc.local (e.g. python3 /opt/alphonses-hat/alphonses-hat.py &)

🕔 Add one ninja diffuser on top of the Unicorn HAT

🕟 Create a LEGO holder

acceptable but kid wants to break it apart

🕕 Turn it on and nearly get blind during first night

🕡 Try adding one more ninja diffuser for the following night

🕖 Enjoy pleasant reflector lights

🕣 Try with 2x ninja and 1x frosted diffuser on the night to come

🕦 Enjoy pleasant reflector lights in the winter scenery

src: FM Industry

🕢 Try with 3 ninja and 2 frosted diffusers

🕗 Go to sleep and enjoy the darkness, but fail to see if the clock is actually turned on at all

from left to right: bedroom door, night cabinet, bed, shelf with the clock

🕡 Disassemble everything and try with only 3 ninja diffusers

🕘 Tell everyone on Facebook you’re a miracle worker that can sleep at night and see the clock

🕓 Connect everything with plastic twisties

🕤 Hail accidentally created abbreviation, to be on it’s good side, if it ever comes to life

Hans, Get ze Flammenwerfer!

🕥 Employ two unused frosted diffusers as stand, since you already bought them

wife complains that white plastic twist tie defies Feng shui

🕚 Take everything apart and wait for 2-3 months because you have 0 ideas how to advance with design

🕛 Have an epiphany and settle with the final shape of Raspi clock

backend

frontend

🕧 Write a blog post about it and go to sleep