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TOM: Would an interactive clock be possible?

By etien

3 years ago



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#1 3 years ago

Hello, happy #TOM owner here, I have been toying with the following idea but haven’t found the solution yet, so asking to smarter people than me.

There has been numeral toy clock mods for the Tom, but they are just inert illuminated piece of plastic ( got one myself ).

But midnight magic is such an important feature of the game it would be great to actually have a clock that actually give the time ( and start reverse counting down to zero during the Midnight magic grande finale mode ). I was wondering if that information can be read from the hardware? There isn’t any controlled light ( would have been trivial then and for sure someone would have done something similar to my idea by now ), the dmd does sometimes display the time so this could be trapped with an AI, a bit like colordmd does the job, but non trivial, and a bit erratic. There are definitely the calls from the sound board ( ten o clock! and so on ) but donno if this triggers can be catch in anyway. Also this won’t give the time when a new player starts playing which would be needed for the clock to readjust to the player reached specific time of the night.

Any suggestions?

#2 3 years ago

The clock picture on the speaker panel would be an obviously place to install the mod as a backlit overlay 3D cast.

#3 3 years ago

No answer, so I guess it’s impossible, I was afraid so.
Maybe training an AI to hear the call and recognize the time?

Étienne

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