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- Last Updated: 22 February 2015
- Created: 21 February 2014
[ original facebook post 11/2/13 ]
I have been playing with Raspberry Pi's for a little while, mostly as a media center pc replacement, for which it works quite well. I was rearranging my living room and finding that I needed a clock on a particular wall, partly because the wall was bare and partly because my new watch-tv-seating had no view of a clock.
I saw a left over monitor in the corner, and a thought was born....
Some experimenting with a Pi, that I had as a spare for some as yet unknown project, showed that Midori (the Pi's browser) was based on webkit, and it was pretty fully implemented. I then retired to Chrome (also webkit based) for a development session.
Some html and javascript later, we have a clock! The source file for Midori is simply stored on the file system. I didn't bother with a web server, since its a static page, with javascript running the show. I topped it off with the current weather conditions scraped from some weather site.
#PiClock #RaspberryPi