{"id":955,"date":"2020-11-01T18:05:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T02:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/?p=955"},"modified":"2020-11-01T19:38:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T03:38:59","slug":"dotklok-revival-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/?p=955","title":{"rendered":"DOTKLOK Revival &#8211; Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in June 2019, I posted an <a href=\"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/?p=885\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> about the revival of the DOTKLOK project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DotKlok.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-886\" src=\"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DotKlok-300x283.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DotKlok-300x283.png 300w, https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DotKlok-318x300.png 318w, https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DotKlok.png 357w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I worked hard and made some changes to the design. Unfortunately, I could not find the same LED displays that were used in the original project. The Chinese company SURE no longer makes these displays. I literally hounded them to find me some new-old-stock (NOS) and came up empty.<\/p>\n<p>This means I have to find a different source of LED displays. I did find some alternatives, but they are a different size and use a completely different API specification. To get this to work, I have to redesign the case and rewrite the source code that drives the clock.<\/p>\n<p>I have not given up on the idea, but there is a lot of work here. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in June 2019, I posted an article about the revival of the DOTKLOK project. I worked hard and made some changes to the design. Unfortunately, I could not find the same LED displays that were used in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/?p=955\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}