Not that we’re complaining, of course. The latest entry into the pantheon of unusual timepieces is this ESP32-powered desk clock from [Alejandro Wurts] that features a folding LED matrix display.

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To achieve this he created Fade, a custom programming language/framework for controlling LED animations from the ESP32. Fade is written for addressable RGB LEDs like the Neopixel/WS2812.