Sean Petrow


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  • "- The wall hanger and bulge at the bottom will make it stick out from the wall with visible space behind it. It thus wouldn't be very visually appealing from any angle that isn't ~straight on. If this is a wall clock, make it a wall clock instead of a hybrid between wall and desk-mount. Have two separate models which better meet their intended use-cases if the aim here is essential basics.- It doesn't need an alarm. The alarm icon lights up the same color and in the same space as the hours. When looking at it from a far distance, you'd have to decipher 3 glows instead of just hours + minutes.- The wall cord, which is explicitly designed to go in the wall (also, is it plenum rated?), has a USB connector on one end and a 90* DC jack on the other. Thus, you'd need to drill a fairly large hole to get this through the wall; quite a bit larger than if a straight DC jack had been employed. You'd also need an exit hole or some way to provide USB power behind the wall. This doesn't seem like an elegant solution. I would instead make the lights much dimmer, use the space inside the clock for batteries, and see if I could get the battery life to something like a year. Wall clocks shouldn't need mains power.- The hours and minutes light up differently. IMO, the hours should just use a larger square, or just lit-up bars. You don't even need actual numbers. In this way, even someone with poor vision could determine the time from a greater indoor distance. It'd also likely look nicer (though this is totally an opinion) to have the hour and minute indicators match in shape / style.- If there should be any interface beyond what is required to set the time, I would make the brightness adjustable, or have a light sensor behind the plastic (not visible from the outside) which automatically adjusts (possibly with a ~5-step adjustable ratio) the brightness of the lights.I saw the first photo and wanted this. Then I started thinking about it and how I'd do it differently. Now I want to build my own.3"
    on: A See-Through Clock Stripped Down to the Essential Basics
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