{"id":654852,"date":"2026-05-20T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/654852\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:58:09","slug":"put-the-moon-on-your-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/654852\/","title":{"rendered":"Put The Moon On Your Desk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people take the Moon for granted, not considering its slow cycle where the sun gradually illuminates different parts of it. A recent project from [Karsten Mueller] helps you keep our nearest celestial neighbor in mind by <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kmueller.dev\/mondansicht-fuer-den-schreibtisch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">putting a tiny version on your desk<\/a>. (German)<\/p>\n<p>The device itself is made with a circular display, an ESP32-S3, and a simple 3D printed case. But the interesting part is the software \u2014 it\u2019s not just a moon phase display, it actually takes your local time, latitude and longitude into account. The resulting image is an approximation of what the moon looks like if you were to look at it, even if you wouldn\u2019t actually be able to see it, such as when it is obscured by the Earth or barely visible during the daylight sky. Initially the project actually used a photograph of the Moon that [Karsten] personally snapped, but there\u2019s also an option to pull the imagery from NASA.<\/p>\n<p>The original write-up is in German, but there\u2019s also an English <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.io\/project\/205739-moon-display\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">page for the project on Hackaday.io<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/kmio42\/moon-display\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">source is available on GitHub<\/a> if you\u2019d like to put one together yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most people take the Moon for granted, not considering its slow cycle where the sun gradually illuminates different&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-654852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}