CiaraImagine if all the techbros stopped designing dark patterns and force-feeding us AI and started designing technology that makes the world a little better. Like this cognitive-assistance clock at the DokkX welfare technology lab in Aarhus. Brain fog, temporary illness, long-term disability, dementia – how useful to have a clock that clearly tells you what day of the week it is and whether it’s morning, afternoon, evening or night.
Leif Samuelsson@CiaraNi@mastodon.green @xgebi@hachyderm.io
I made this for my old mom in 2018, using a standard Raspberry Pi 3 kit with a 7" screen, and enclosure. A simple python script runs on startup. I never got around to adding reminders and two-way radio, but I did install ssh and vnc so I could monitor it and make changes remotely. It was very useful for a couple of years until her dementia deteriorated further.
If anyone is willing to host the description and small implementation files in a public source repo, then I would be happy to share.
#RaspberryPi #clock #dementia #piclock