The little pixel clock that became part of my smart home
The Ulanzi TC001 is a small Wi-Fi clock built around a 32 x 8 RGB LED matrix. It’s compact, bright and just retro enough to be charming without looking like something dragged out of an arcade cabinet. Out of the box, the appeal is simple. The display is clear enough to read from across a room, small enough to sit unobtrusively on a desk or kitchen bench, and far more interesting than another anonymous black LCD clock.
You can glance across the room and get useful information without opening an app, waking a phone or talking to anything. That’s already quite good fun. It’s also hackable!
It does rather more than tell the time
Before going anywhere near custom firmware, the TC001 is already a surprisingly capable little desk gadget.
Content creators will want one in the back of their shot displaying subscriber numbers, but obvious jobs are also there:...
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