Telling Time Through Literature
Most clocks tell the time with numbers, but GitHub user kapoorankush’s clock tells time with stories. Instead of displaying "10:26," for example, it might show a passage from a novel reading, "It was twenty-six minutes past ten," pulling from a library of thousands of carefully selected quotes that each correspond to a specific minute of the day.
Called LitClock, the open source project combines a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W with a 7.5-inch Waveshare e-paper display to create a literary clock designed for everyday use. More than 4,800 curated quotations cover every minute of the day, with the display also showing the current date and local weather. The paper-like appearance of the e-ink screen gives the device the look of a framed page rather than another glowing display competing for attention.
Scanning a QR code on the clock's screen launches the setup process (📷: kapoorankush)
While the idea of...
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