Starting an Adventure With clockOS

Written by sGerli on {{ "2017-02-05T21:31:33+00:00" | date "longDate" }}

Last week I started to develop clockOS (actually it isn't an OS, it's just an Electron JS app). I decided to develop it with Angular 2, a modern web app framework and then wrap it inside an Electron js app. This Electron app is designed to run in a Raspberry Pi with a 320x240 display, 4 navigation buttons, and ResinOS as the base OS. I'm using ResinOS because it's just a wrapper for docker containers, so it's really easy to deploy apps and updates to it. I decided to break down the project into two repos, one for the Angular app, and one for the Docker/Electron container.

At the time of writing this post clockOS has:

Default watchface
Navigation menu
Support for navigation physical buttons
Basic view transitions
Customizable clock component
Status bar component

Here's a sneak peek of clockOS' current state:

If you want to try clockOS in your own hardware or contribute with the project please check out our GitHub repo https://github.com/iGerli/clockOS.