Ideas:
I frequent a chosen public pace throughout a couple of days at various times and take measurements to deduce average walking speed. I graph the average walking speed over the hours and minutes in a day. Once this is done, I might be able to look at someone’s walking speed in that place, check the graph and know what time it is.
Variation: Measuring various times across the city and creating a map. Examples:
Time it takes for a specific puddle to dry.
Walking speed on the sidewalk square at the corner of Broadway and Lafayette.
Time it takes people to climb a specific staircase in Union Square.
I would choose a public place and sit there for ten minutes every day, observing the environment, observing the energy in people’s bodies, and just sitting there. Everyday I would create a time map.
A digital clock that displays the time during moments when I’m most likely to look at the time and is otherwise off. How this would work: I carry it around with me and whenever I want to check the time, I click a button on it and it shows me the time. Internally it logs all the times at which I checked the time. Then, every day after, the clock will display the logged times and otherwise the display remains off. For example, if on Monday I wanted to know the time at 9:01am, then every subsequent day at 9:01 am the display would show that time.
The question is: if I use this clock long enough, will it be customized to me and will I no longer need to click the button to see the time?
Inspiration: I always take my phone out of my pocket to check the time throughout the day. I think that there is a pattern to when I check the time.
→ writing and reading from EEPROM memory seems hard…