{"id":591743,"date":"2026-08-13T06:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/591743\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T06:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:28:08","slug":"smart-clock-helps-with-medication-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/591743\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Clock Helps With Medication Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are all kinds of smart devices on the market these days, but if you want one to solve a particular personal problem, sometimes it\u2019s easiest to just build your own. That\u2019s precisely what [hvermaak.projects] did when it came to the <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.io\/project\/206393-ouma-ria-smart-clock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ouma Ria Smart Clock<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The clock was primarily intended to act as a useful tool for providing medication reminders, before some extra useful home functionality was folded in. The heart of the build is an ESP32-WROOM-32 hooked up to four 8\u00d78 WS2812B addressable LED panels acting as a display. A further 30 WS2812Bs in a strip act as a status indicator. A DS3231 real-time-clock module ensures the clock keeps accurate time, while a BH1750 ambient light sensor makes sure the clock is responsive to current lighting conditions. There\u2019s also a DFPlayer Mini audio module for spoken announcements and chimes, while there are inputs for AM312 passive infrared motion sensors that allow the clock to act as a rudimentary security monitor. There\u2019s even a web interface for control and scheduling.<\/p>\n<p>The device ultimately evolved into something that helped with daily live, handling everything from medication management to remembering birthdays, and even helping out with kitchen timing tasks.\u00a0 We\u2019ve featured some other innovative builds in this space in recent years, too, <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2026\/06\/15\/this-alarm-clock-has-the-capacity-to-wake-you\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">like this explosively loud alarm clock.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are all kinds of smart devices on the market these days, but if you want one to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-591743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}