He turned a 45 euro stopwatch into a home info display overnight

He bought an M5Stack stopwatch for 45 euros and never used it as one. With the AI he turned it into a round Home Assistant info display with 14 modules overnight, in under 25 minutes of typing himself.

How it works

Buys an M5Stack StopWatch and never uses it
The AI rebuilds it overnight into a Home Assistant info display with 14 modules
His own typing takes under 25 minutes in total

Why it’s worth knowing

A stopwatch he never used became the screen that shows his home info, rebuilt in one night with less than 25 minutes of his own typing.

Where it’s from

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

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