Bedside Clock | Jeff Mangum

Bedside Day/Moon Phase Clock with Gesture Sensing Commands

I wanted to do a project with some of the neat round displays that Adafruit Industries has been developing, so came up with this bedside clock idea. It displays the time, synched with NTP, with a background image of the Sun when the Sun is up. When the Sun is not up, it diaplays an image of the current Moon phase as its background. A gesture sensor accessed through a hole in the top of the enclosure allows one to increase or decrease the backlight intensity, in the event that one wants to see what time it is in the middle of the night. As with many of my builds, I built the enclosure out of 1/4 inch wood veneer. ESP32-S2 microcontroller breakout board and gesture sensor from Adafruit Industries.

Bedside clock front view in daytime, showing enclosure

Bedside clock innards (ESP32-S3 and gesture sensor)

Pictures and a movie of my bedside clock. Left-to-right: (1) Bedside clock as it appears during the day. (2) Daytime view from another angle to show enclosure and gesture sensor access (hole in top of enclosure). (3) Night time view. (4) Bedside clock innards (ESP32-S3 and gesture sensor).