Cyberpunk alarm clock reset button

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The converted alarm clock I showed previously generally works fine. However, over the past few months, its display part (not the ESP8266 board) tended to sometimes fail to update, requiring a manual reset.

Since the enclosure I used doesn’t expose the board’s reset button, this required reaching under a desk to unplug a USB cable and plug it back in. After a while, I decided to spend the time required to add an external reset button.

The reset pushbutton connects between the ground and reset pins.

Mounted on top of the alarm clock enclosure, the green reset button only looks slightly out of place.

While adding the reset button, I noticed that one of the existing connections from the ESP8266 board to the display module was poorly soldered. I fixed it. I have not needed to push the reset button in the weeks since: the frequent failures have disappeared.

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