alt Hacker NewsI feel this article's premise too much. That's exactly the sort of clock I wanted to get my mom as a gift.
Why is it so dang impossible to find a not trash simple LED clock that's 'large print', 'the right color', and not annoyingly too bright?
A deluxe model might include a day of the week bar or dot and a month / day in month number (smaller than the time, mostly people care about the time)
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I think too bright would be an issue with any LED display. Even lights on my modem in a different room are a bit much, I turn it off at night.
My parents rely on mechanical clocks, adjusting and ‘winding’ weights almost every day, they take great joy and pride from the fiddling. It’s fun to hear the clocks announce the hour and slowly hear them drift over time.
I found the following that works quite well
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWKYRS84
(the LEDs come in different colors)
Did you look at memory clocks?
I needed the same thing, so I made one:
https://www.stavros.io/posts/i-made-another-little-bedside-c...
I've had the same struggle. There are some decent LED clocks with up to 1" displays (high), but any further and you get weird colors or glaringly-bright displays.
The best options are expensive clock displays from like Time Machines, MasterClock, etc... but they are not cheap and not meant for consumers.