Pong Clock

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175 points donohoe | 2 comments | 28 Aug 25 16:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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tombert ◴[31 Aug 25 23:47 UTC] No.45088128[source]▶

I have an old TV that I bought in 2015. It's in this kind of weird situation where it's "too good to throw away but not good enough to actually use". All I have been using it for in the last six years is plugging it into servers that only have a VGA port, and I don't have any of those anymore.

I've thought about mounting it to a wall plugging in a Raspberry Pi and have it constantly rotate fun different types of clocks. Something like this seems like it could be a fit.

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1. BobbyTables2 ◴[01 Sep 25 01:50 UTC] No.45088711[source]▶

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Wow, my only TV is from 2012!

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2. tombert ◴[01 Sep 25 03:29 UTC] No.45089192[source]▶

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I mean none of my TVs are top of the line, I don't own any TVs that cost more than $600, but I did feel like the upgrade to 4K was worth it back in ~2018.

The TV I was referring to was extremely cheap even in 2015. It's not even 1080p, and I'm not even 100% convinced it's even 720p, despite what it says. It served us well enough when I was broke working for academia, but I upgraded everything when I was able to afford it.

Still, this TV is relatively small and could still be kind of fun for a virtual clock, so it might be nice to get a bit more life out of it.

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