How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

What it does

Over the past decade, I

TL;DR: Over the past decade, I’ve worked to build the perfect family dashboard system for our home, called Timeframe . Combining calendar, weather, and smart home data, it’s become an important part of our daily lives. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47113728 for a lively discussion of this post. When Caitlin and I got married a decade ago, we set an intention to have a healthy relationship with technology in our home. We kept our bedroom free of any screens, charging our devices elsewhere overnight. But we missed our calendar and weather apps. So I set out to build a solution to our problem. First, I constructed a Magic Mirror using an off-the-shelf medicine cabinet and LCD…from hawksley.org

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