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The AI writes our family calendar fresh every morning

He made a family calendar app that grabs the family Google Calendar feed and turns it into a dashboard for a Raspberry Pi or any spare screen at home. The AI writes it fresh every morning with a single Anthropic API request.

How it works

  1. The app grabs the Google Calendar feed
  2. The AI turns it into a dashboard in a single Anthropic API request
  3. The dashboard shows on a Raspberry Pi or spare screen at home
  4. It refreshes daily

Why it’s worth knowing

One API request each morning turns the family calendar feed into a fresh dashboard on a screen they already own.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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