A daily briefing for a passive info display.
To create this retrofuturistic passive information display, I used the following pieces:
- Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
- Waveshare 2 Inch LCD Module
- KY-040 Rotary Encoder
And for the housing, it is mounted inside a gutted Hanimex Vista Viewer II, which is a analog 35 mm slide viewer. The LCD is mounted in place where the film slide would typically go.
The Nature Oracle program consists of a slideshow, akin to a PowerPoint presentation, rendered in glourious orange ASCII on a black background for vintage goodness. In its current state, there are a handful of topics structured in the codebase as modules.
- Sign up for free API Keys with Open Weather and NASA.
- Add them to secrets.py (see secrets_template.py to see an example)
- run nature-oracle.py using python
