• BBC Weather feed
  • My Google Calendar
  • Flora's iCal
  • My fellow travellers from the Dopplr API (this was broken when I printed it, but they've fixed it to show just people who are travelling now.)
  • "Good morning" - are you timeshifting?!? - tim_d

daily summary

To be scheduled for 8am every day. There's probably other stuff to be added here.

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    tamlyn.org, moleitau, Ben Terrett, ohskylab, and 37 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. russelldavies (53 months ago | reply)

    That is brilliant.

    Hurry up and build me one.

  3. blech​ (53 months ago | reply)

    spoon, 2lmc's kitchen computer (it was, I think, a Fujitsu tablet of some stripe- it belonged to either Tom or Simon, they might know) used to tell us three things, all scraped: which tube lines were broken, what the weather forecast was, and the news. The idea was we could glance at it before going out, and take coats/umbrellas/the bus as necessary.

    Nowadays, I'd skip the news (read the Economist every week, daily news is just noise), but transport information might be a good one, if you can find a good source. The use of calendars is nice.

  4. Tom T (53 months ago | reply)

    Specific tube line/overground outages is a good idea.

  5. blech​ (53 months ago | reply)

    TfL do have various RSS feeds, but for per-line overground/mainline trains, you might have to do a bit of filtering.

  6. moleitau (53 months ago | reply)

    twitter.com/MadameZee or twitter.com/riverthames or twitter.com/presencemachine might be nice.

  7. Ben Terrett (53 months ago | reply)

    Very nice. The live football text thing the BBC do would be fun.

  8. Tom T (53 months ago | reply)

    All good ideas - @towerbridge openings would be useful for me too, since I cross it every day.

  9. Lloyd Davis (53 months ago | reply)

    you bloody brilliant bastard - well done!

  10. antimega (53 months ago | reply)

    I'd like a copy of the code ;) I think I can fit the arduino in mine, if I cut a hole for the ethernet. I hope there's a 5v power floating around somewhere.

  11. Robert Brook (53 months ago | reply)

    This is wonderful.

  12. Jeremy Gould (53 months ago | reply)

    Bloody..... fantastic.........

  13. jesybean (53 months ago | reply)

    magic.

  14. dreamyshade (53 months ago | reply)

    is this a normal receipt printer? those slips of paper decay in strange and great ways a few months after you stick them in a drawer.

  15. flocosdeneves (53 months ago | reply)

    this is brilliant, Tom!
    Another great idea.

  16. crouchingbadger (53 months ago | reply)

    stop being so clever please

  17. EHC2000 (52 months ago | reply)

    oh man this is what i've been thinking about for a few months as well! gotta get cracklin'

  18. SFG (44 months ago | reply)

    This is bloody (the british people say this a lot, right?) brilliant! I had the same Idea and then I found this. I already ordered my Arduino and will rebuild this.

    Best wishes from Germany.

  19. heytherewombat (42 months ago | reply)

    Brilliant!!! Is there a set of instructions for building this?

  20. SFG (41 months ago | reply)

    How exactly did you parse your google calendar?

  21. Tom T (41 months ago | reply)

    Atom feed, I think.

  22. ekhamburg (28 months ago | reply)

    How exactly did you parse your google calendar?

    I want to know too.

  23. Tom T (28 months ago | reply)

    I got the private iCal feed URL and parsed it in a Ruby library.

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