Poem/1 tells the time with a brand new poem every minute, every single day, composed by ChatGPT. Itβs sometimes profound, and sometimes weird, and very occasionally it fibs about what the actual time is to make a rhyme work. It has a cute e-paper screen.
I shared a hack of my AI clock on Twitter back in 2023 -- and never expected it to go viral. It ended up in The Verge and the New York Times. So I thought I should make it? Manufacturing connected hardware as an indie is wild, but I've done it before. I'm collaborating with London industrial designers Approach Studio and hardware engineer Tom Armitage, and Poem/1 is the result. It's on Kickstarter right now. It's gorgeous but ALSO you may like this: you can change the backend server URL from the