Some things have an undeniable appeal, and lo-fi, pixelated Game Boy-camera-like images are one of them.

Is it digital, or is it analog?  Well it's some combination of the two! The rack driven 7 segment display is a fully 3D printed mechanical desk piece that is equal parts satisfying and bewildering.  Turn the top dial to rotate a series of 14 cams which push on a rack and pinion system to reveal a number.  Operate is manually, or add a servo motor to the back and have the thing run on it's own.

Modern TVs are very poorly suited for kids. They require using complicated remotes or mobile phones, and navigating apps that continually try to lure you into watching something else than you intended to. The usual scenario ends up with the kid feeling disempowered and asking an adult to put something on. That something ends up on auto-play because then the adult is free to do other things and the kid ends up stranded powerless and comatose in front of the TV.

A feature-rich camera application for the LilyGo T-Display S3 Pro with OV3660 camera module, featuring real-time filters, software digital zoom, and advanced image processing capabilities.

Inspired by: Carlo Andreini's Pixless Camera - a 0.03MP camera that captures charming pixel-art style photos, reminiscent of the iconic Game Boy Camera.

School Amateur Radio Clubs have inspired a number of very interesting radio and electronic projects.

Electronics-based art installations are often fleeting and specific things that only a select few people who are in the right place or time get to experience before they are lost to the ravages of ‘progress.’ So it’s wonderful to find a dedicated son who has recreated his father’s 1973 art installation, showing it to the world in a miniature form. The network-iv-rebooted project is a recreation of an installation once housed within a departure lounge in terminal C of Seattle-Tacoma airport.

TL;DR - A simple mission to write a guide for some people on Reddit on how to create a plane spotting screen led me down a deep ADS-B rabbit hole and ended with me building a clock.

Read on for a guide to build a screen yourself (GitHub repo here), or if you can't be bothered to source the components and run your own ADS-B station, I can send you a kit with everything you need to set up a clock like the one above.