
I built a weather bear for my kids who can't read yet
My three daughters (4 and twin 2-year-olds) can't read, so every morning was "why boots?", "why the coat?", "where are we going?"
So I made an e-ink frame with a bear who dresses for the weather. Coat and beanie under 10 degrees, raincoat and boots when it rains. She also follows our day: breakfast, daycare backpack, teeth, bed.
A few things the kids love:
- A mouse hides somewhere different every day
- Before a birthday, a row of moons shows how many sleeps are left
- When they draw something for the bear, I photograph it and it shows up in the frame. To them, the bear got their present.
It's an ESP32 board and a 7.5" e-paper screen in a box frame, about 130 € in total. The screen refreshes every 15 minutes, and at night the bear sleeps.
(The passe-partout is badly cut, I know. A proper one is on its way.)