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fxwintoday at 7:22 AM2 repliesview on HN

> The Pi 3B+ seems just enough to render some simple animations.

> I think a Pi 4 might be a good sweet spot between processing power and price,

I know this isn't exactly a serious product and more of a gadget/gimmick but man we are off by a factor of like 3-4 here :D


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hack1312today at 7:28 AM

If they didn’t use an entire browser to render the clock face this seems like it could be an Arduino/ESP32-esque project.

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maxlintoday at 1:33 PM

This. I've recently been porting my ECS-based 3d game/app engine for my 256MB Raspi Zero AND ESP32-S3, so reading that you need gigabytes to comfortably render a clock appears just ... stupid.