Between this and Pokémon sleep I’m questioning why Nintendo needs to watch us sleep.
Two reasons:
- Sleep data can give some information on your health but isn’t regulated as strictly as health data. Health data == Money
- Companies want your time and attention. TV manufacturers want you to use your TV as much as possible, social media companies want you to use their platform as much as possible, video game developers want you to play their games as much as possible. Nintendo successfully gained people’s time when outside through Pokèmon Go already. Now they’re trying to expand to your time sleeping. There’s not much time left which isn’t utilized by companies somewhat. Maybe there will be a Pokèmon School/Work soon?
They’ve had this type of stuff in the works for at least a decade
Nintendo switch online required
They finally stopped pretending they weren’t about programmed obsolescence
Switch 2 taking on a crazy form
I kinda wanna reverse/side engineer a replica you can DIY because fuck Nintendo.
Could probably use this as a base
https://www.printables.com/model/7266-star-trek-alarm-clock-adafruit-pyportal
Unfortunately your guide links to stuff on adafruit that’s out of stock - mostly the screen/microprocessor…
I found this guide that has a walk through with full code and an easy to use library for making the interface quite a bit better:
https://www.makerguides.com/digital-clock-crowpanel-3-5-display/
I’m going to be building two initially for myself and my girlfriends kid but once I work out the details I’ll post it up on the fediverse somewhere with the full code to get going.
I am much more keen to use C instead of Python for something like a clock although I’m sure circuit-python is fast enough, id rather stick to native libraries.
Okay, so there’s two lines I could go down for this.
The first is to joke about the recent controversy, and say that they’re only doing this so they can sue other alarm clock manufacturers for patent infringement.
The second is a wordplay by calling it “the s-watch”. But that doesn’t really translate well to text.
