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Xiao Round TFT Display Swatch Internet Hour

Internet hour was a concept created by Charly Alberti, Soda Stereo drummer, in 1998. Some months later, Swatch company released the same idea with a series of watches displaying time in Beats. This clock calculates beats using a formula to display Internet Time.

Parts required

Seeed Studio Xiao nrf52840 Seeed Studio Xiao TFT Round Display 3d printed patrts https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/gadget/xiao-round-display-tft-internet-time-stand (or Helping Hands Soldering Station with 3X Magnifying Glass as you can see in the demo video)

Libraries

TFT_eSPI by Bodmer I2C BM8563 RTC by tanaka LVGL https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/Seeed_Arduino_RoundDisplay

Hour configuration

Check UTC +1 hour at https://time.is/UTC+1 Configure inside .ino code uint8_t h = 13, m = 44, s = 40; before uploading.

Demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp1xQuQ7nPs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyPsmtE1eLw