Modding and Hardware Projects: ESP8266 and Hackaday's Latest

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Building an ESP8266 bedside clock
My first post about waiting for some ESP8266 based boards was back in 2016, and I’ve mentioned the use of an ESP8266 in various home automation posts. However I’ve never actually written up what I did with that first board. Hopefully you’ve figured it out from the title of this post.
I had an actual need/desire for a new beside clock. Previously I had a Sony Clock Radio cube, which set itself via the MSF signal. However it ended up with drift - I’m guessing it did a set on power on, but then failed to regularly sync up. I don’t need an alarm clock - my phone provides a much more flexible set of options for that - but I do like to be able to easily tell when I wake up in the night if I’ve got 5 minutes until the alarm or several hours. This seemed like a perfect (if unimaginative) first project for the ESP8266 - build something standalone that would get the time via NTP and have a night-time visible time display.
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Open Source Fader Bank Modulates our Hearts
Here at Hackaday, we love knobs and buttons. So what could be better than one button?
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Sharpest Color CRT Display is Monochrome Plus a Trick
I recently came across the most peculiar way to make a color CRT monitor.
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