I am backing a great Kickstarter project called ClockTHREE Jr. I'm backing with enough to receive my own clock once the project is funded. One of the awesome things about this project is how much customization the team is allowing for individual clocks. Not only can you pick the color of the clock face, but you can also customize the layout of the clock face text. So I have been working on how I want my clock laid out and how it will work. One note if you are interested in the customized layout, you will have to program it yourself. I already have the tools and experience with the micro-controller being used, so I'm not too worried about doing this myself. Also, the ClockThree Jr. team has been very helpful and responsive to my questions and ideas for layouts which is nice.
Another backer and team affiliate, Vincent-Gabriel Vallée, put together a nice web app to show off his design which is in French. I have modified his code to show off the design I will mostly be ordering for myself. This took a little work, since I don't have much javascript practice. But I figured it out and posted it below.
One of the differences of my design compared to what I've seen so far from the ClockThree Jr. team is how it displays minutes. I want it to say all the minutes in increments of 5. I would have it say every minute exactly but there simply isn't enough room on this clock for that much information. So the other big difference with my design in the use of the terms "almost" and "just after". These modifiers will give the reader a better clue as to the exact time.
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