So I have a weatherman, which also tells me the news

The author built a custom e-paper display using a LILYGO T5 module with an ESP32 chip to consolidate information they care about—including weather, Hacker News updates, astronomical events, and air quality data—into a single static dashboard. Rather than relying on algorithmic content feeds from social media, they created a backend HTTP server to aggregate data from various APIs and render it on the e-paper display in an organized 2x3 grid layout. The project evolved from an initial unstructured attempt to a more polished design using Claude AI to help optimize the visual presentation and highlight the most important information.