{"id":19132,"date":"2018-08-24T11:30:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T10:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19132"},"modified":"2018-08-24T09:46:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T08:46:01","slug":"back-to-the-future-clock-powered-by-a-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19132","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Future clock powered by a Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/back_to_the_future_clock.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19133\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/back_to_the_future_clock.jpg?resize=560%2C374&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/back_to_the_future_clock.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/back_to_the_future_clock.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/back_to_the_future_clock.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/back_to_the_future_clock.jpg?resize=560%2C374&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/back_to_the_future_clock.jpg?resize=260%2C173&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/back_to_the_future_clock.jpg?resize=160%2C107&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instructables user <a class=\"author\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/member\/jejl\/\" rel=\"author\">jejl<\/a>\u00a0has created this lovely, chunky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/A-Back-to-the-Future-Clock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Back to the Future-inspired clock<\/a>. Audio capabilities are provided via a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shop.pimoroni.com\/products\/phat-dac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pimoroni pHAT DAC<\/a>\u00a0and controlling it all is a Raspberry Pi Zero W. As well as the time, which it can display in various formats, it can also show the weather forecast (courtesy of a feed from his Arduino-powered weather station). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/A-Back-to-the-Future-Clock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read a complete bill-of-materials and a tutorial here<\/a>. You can see it in action below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The BTTF clock with scrolling display\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SIGJ82QzX0k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instructables user jejl\u00a0has created this lovely, chunky Back to the Future-inspired clock. Audio capabilities are provided via a\u00a0Pimoroni pHAT DAC\u00a0and controlling it all is a Raspberry Pi Zero W. As well as the time, which it can display in various&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19132\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,4,22,20,26,50],"tags":[819],"class_list":["post-19132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accessories","category-audio","category-geeky-techiness","category-gpio-boards","category-internet-of-things","category-making","tag-back-to-the-future"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Back to the Future clock powered by a Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19132\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Back to the Future clock powered by a Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Instructables user jejl\u00a0has created this lovely, chunky Back to the Future-inspired clock. 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