[Lab] How to set a clock

[Matthew Bells]

Couple of ideas:

1. Use GPS (may not be the best indoors and may require timezone updates,
but this could be with + - buttons).
2. Have a camera and show it a written time (either hand written on paper or
another clock). Cool if you could pull it off, simple UX, but hard to
implement.

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From: Lab [mailto:lab-bounces at artengine.ca] On Behalf Of Peter Sjoberg
Sent: 2014.September.12 08:24
To: Darcy Whyte; lab at artengine.ca
Subject: Re: [Lab] How to set a clock

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On 09/11/2014 12:54 PM, Darcy Whyte wrote:
> So here's what I believe to be the best candidate (so far) for setting
> the time.
> 
> It just requires a switch (and whatever pull resistor).
> 
> Using two gestures hold and click.

This click/hold reminds me of when I set house code on my X10 motion
sensors.
Press and hold the button for about 3 sec and it starts flashing current
code. if you want to change it you then press required times and on the
one you need to press and hold to save it.

you could get it to set the individual numbers by something like
* hours: hold - it blinks current hour - click click hold and you set it
to 3
* 10th minutes: click hold - flash 10th minutes...
* <10 minutes : click click hold - flash <10minutes
if you just click-hold it flashes current 10th minute and if you don't
click anything it doesn't change it.

This way you can confirm your time without interpret the exact color ,
and set the individual digits if needed without having to set all of
them in one cycle.


> 
> To set 2:31:
> hold
> click click
> hold
> click click click
> hold
> click
> hold
> 
> To set 3:02
> hold
> click click click
> hold
> hold
> click click
> hold
> 
> If there were not four holds, it throws out your data and goes back to
> clock with whatever time it was on. So I guess there's a third gesture
> which is wait which abandons the operation.
> 
> The worst scenario is 12:59:
> hold
> click click click click click click click click click click click click 
> hold
> click click click click click 
> hold
> click click click click click click click click click 
> hold
> 
> It's easy enough to do and only requires one switch.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Darcy Whyte
> 
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> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at inventorartist.com
> <mailto:darcy at inventorartist.com>> wrote:
> 
>     So I have this rooster that tells
>     time: http://inventorartist.com/time-rooster/
> 
>     Here's a tricky problem. How to set the time? I mean a user friendly
>     way for a user.
> 
>     I think I have a solution but I wanted to table it here to see if
>     anybody has anything up their sleeve. I will post my idea shortly
>     but I didn't want to bias anybody's problem solving skill...
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     --
>     Darcy Whyte
> 
>     Art+ inventorArtist.com <http://inventorartist.com/> |
>     Aviation rubber-power.com <http://rubber-power.com/>
>     Contact: darcy at inventorArtist.com
>     <mailto:darcy at inventorArtist.com> | 613-563-3634 <tel:613-563-3634>
>     by appointment (no text)
> 
> 
> 
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