Feed a Raspberry Pi dot-matrix display from your agent

A 90s-pinball style display shows weather, lake fishing conditions, bird reports, local shows, sports and AI news.

by Zachary Taylor8 Oct 2026

Prompt for your agent

Goal: Build a small display that my agent keeps updated.
Setup: agents used in source: Hermes Agent; tools/MCPs stated: Raspberry Pi 5.
Steps:
1. Build the display (Raspberry Pi 5 dot-matrix; or Pi Zero 2 W with a 1.3" screen).
2. Have the agent feed it: weather, fishing conditions, a hyperlocal bird report, local shows, sports on TV and AI news.
3. Variant: show Claude Code weekly quota, 5-hour window and model usage on screens you flip with a joystick.
Rules: ask me before anything irreversible (sending, posting, paying, deleting); don’t invent data, results or tools I haven’t given you; tell me what you couldn’t verify.
Based on: Zachary Taylor — https://x.com/ztaylor/status/2108289455228616868

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Agents, models and tools only what the source states

Agents
Hermes Agent
Tools
  • Raspberry Pi 5

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