Work clock - a slightly unusual desk clock

I wanted a clock for my office, and couldn't decide what I wanted, so I opted to make a slightly unusual one with a Raspberry Pi and an e-ink screen.

Inspired by Matt Webb's AI Poem clock as well as this very expensive wall clock (and this much less expensive one), I wanted a word-based clock for my office that would not show the exact time but would be deliberately more vague.

An e-paper display seemed ideal for this as it would only need to update relatively infrequently — I settled on every 5 minutes, and only during working hours.

Because this was going to be sat on my desk, I only want / need it to show the time during by working hours (and to act as a prompt to tell me to stop working at the appropriate hour), so to reduce the number of display refreshes the script will write a status value to a text file each time it runs, and will check the status next time it runs in order to see if it needs to update the display or not.

Check out the GitHub repo for more info and a parts list if you're interested in making your own.