I made a clock that always* shows the wrong time when it detects someone looking at it. *It's right twice a day

Using the @adafruit QT-Py ESP32-S2 (running CircuitPython) and 7-segment LED backpack. Using the Person Sensor for face detection. No soldering!

This is a present for @coreyabeach ! "12:34" is a long-running bit. Sorry Corey, too impatient to wait to give it to you.

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me trying to outsmart the clock to sneak a glance at the time

@sanaekok Haha literally me testing it yesterday

Is there a way to implement an alarm feature that goes off at the actual time you set it, but displays a later time so you wake up in a panic?

Lol yes amazing idea

I wasn't sure how practical it would be to make a clock without using an RTC, but turns out using a WiFi chip and just syncing with the world time api every ~10 minutes works fine. Bonus is that you just have to enter your timezone and you'll never have to set it!

Source code, instructions, case 3D model available here:

Guy, I mean if it knows the correct time and changes to something else why not *always* change it to something that is wrong ...and you wouldn't have a clock that was right twice a day, and was in fact always wrong when someone looked at it? 🙂

Sorry I covered that a few tweets down - 12:34 is a running joke with a friend. Changing it to a random time would be trivial and when I publish the project I'll do that.