I think this is it!! I have spent the last few hours connecting everything and organising it inside the housing. Additionally, finished up the code to set an alarm and replaced the quote with the weather forecast. A little less inspiring (especially with the next few days just raining) but more useful 🙃. It really has been an incredible project. It’s strange, before, I never really considered that building something like this was an option, if you know what I mean. Like just buying parts and fitting them together and it all working is really magical. For this final dev vlog, here is the final part list all together:

• ESP32 dev board
• RGB addressable light strip
• 3mm LED light in orange
• 3.7-inch e-ink display
• two buttons
  -one Potentiometer
• One passive buzzer
  -a lot of 3d printing filament (PLA and PETG transparent)
• usb cable

It may sound quite annoying, but I am surprisingly glad of how often I failed (mind you, not at the time). I redesigned the outer body of the clock 3 times (plus printing it three times, don’t even want to know how much filament I used up), moved up from an Arduino Uno to an ESP32 as the Uno just didn’t have enough RAM, and redesigned how the buttons would work 4 times. At the time, this was very disheartening, but when I now look at my first draft and imagine this would be the final result, I’m so glad it isn’t.