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Build a kitchen household dashboard on a Raspberry Pi with Claude

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Emma Moore prompted Claude for about a day to get a Raspberry Pi kitchen dashboard running with calendar, weather, meals and chores.

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We're building a kitchen dashboard for our household on a Raspberry Pi. Help me add modules one at a time: calendar, current and forecast weather, meal suggestions, recurring chores, which color bin goes out this week, and personal to-do pages we can open on our phones. Explain each command you suggest before I run it on the server.

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Goal: Put a household dashboard in the kitchen that shows today's schedule, weather, meals, chores and bin day at a glance.

Questions to ask me first:
- What hardware and server do you already have?
- Which modules matter first?
- Where do your calendar, meal and chore data live today?

Inputs (fill in or confirm):
- Hardware: [RASPBERRY PI / MONITOR / OTHER]
- Data sources: [CALENDAR / WEATHER API / MEAL APP]
- Bin schedule: [DAYS / COLORS]
- Household members: [NAMES]

Rules:
- Build one module at a time and keep a shared style.
- Explain every server command before I run it.
- Store data locally; no new cloud accounts unless I agree.
- Leave room for me to write some parts myself.

Checkpoint: Get the clock, calendar and weather running before adding chores or bins.

If you get stuck: If an API needs a key or paid plan, stop and ask.

Verify before you finish: Check bin day and recurring chores against next week's real schedule.

Output: A running dashboard plus a short note on how to add new modules.

Done when: We can glance at the kitchen screen instead of checking three apps.

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Outcome

Emma Moore and a partner wanted a kitchen display to cut the mental load of tracking day-to-day household details. The partner set up the codebase skeleton with Claude Code; Moore then prompted Claude in the browser, copying code back and forth in small steps. In about a day of prompting, a minimum viable product ran on an old Raspberry Pi and a secondhand monitor with a clock, calendar, current and forecast weather, and meal suggestions. Over the next week Moore added recurring chores, a bin-day module showing which color bin goes out, personal to-do pages on phones, and a workout module, all stored in SQLite and self-hosted on an existing home server. Moore wrote some parts, such as SQL queries, by hand to keep learning, and asked Claude to explain every server command before running it.

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https://emoore29.github.io/notes/2026/03/17/building-a-home-dashboard.html

Context: Moore is a developer and already had a home server. Claude Code was used by the partner for the starting skeleton; most work was in browser Claude.

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