Last weekend felt quite springlike!  We headed to the Malvern Hills, walking from British Camp car park to Worcestershire Beacon and back.  11.5km in total, and rather windy on top (for a change...)

...followed by a tasty and well deserved ice cream!  First of the year, yum

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My original justification/inspiration for spending money on another pi plus pretty lights was this tweet - a word clock.  Very cool!

However instead of doing that, I started thinking of other (easier?) ways of displaying the time, and this is what I came up with:

Obviously a normal (cubic) die only goes up to 6, but with 9 available dots it doesn't take too much effort to add in a few more numbers.  Zero shows no lights, so midnight looks a bit boring...

The unicorn hat python library meant this was minimal effort, once I'd written out many lists of pixel co-ordinates - followed by several weeks of laziness before I tidied and commented the code and stuck it on github. 

The LEDs on their own are a bit harsh, so my current temporary solution is to use a bit of paper to diffuse it.  This does not photograph particularly well, so you'll have to use your imagination

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