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Can't find a cool clock for your studio? Write one!

Episode 659
July 15, 2020

Finding a cool looking, yet fully functional clock for our studio has been a surprising challenge. So rather than buying something that will suffice, Robbie took it upon himself to begin coding a custom clock dashboard that shows not only the time, but also a countdown to the top of the minute, whether we're on air or not, and even the storage space remaining on our server arrays. But can a Raspberry Pi handle it?

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Here's Robbie's Clock Dashboard:
https://github.com/Cat5TV/studio/tree/master/screens/dashboard

Robbie started with this project by Pixelcave: https://medium.com/@pixelcave/building-a-sci-fi-dashboard-in-less-than-4-hrs-44abe5a36a6b

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