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> I also tried with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2, but 512 MB of RAM were too little to run a modern browser,
You don't need a browser to display graphics. And you don't need to be a programming whiz either. I'm sure Claude could write some python to render these clock faces.
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I just want to point out I think the project is still cool, if maybe inefficient. I love the idea of a clock that can do what a smart watch can do.
Yeah, there's loads of really cool visualizations you can do with really limited specs, demo scene stuff. Of course, that's an art of its own, it's probably easier to look at c++ and its graphics libraries, or even game engines.
Or TCL/Tk with even less RAM and CPU usage than Python.
I came here to say the same thing. Why on earth do we need a "modern browser" to show a clock?
People tend to use LVGL for this kind of projects. Seems adequate. No X server, direct framebuffer write, good tooling.
Dude is literally showing the Pebble watchfaces in a screenshot (64 kB limit for both code and data).
512mb or RAM to show the time, what a time we live in.