I have a little LED display in our Apartment, a Tidbyt, and it’s only 64 by 32 pixels. We have some default apps on it but I decided to have Claude help create some custom apps for me. I wanted a weather app. So I made one.
Weather Diorama splits the screen into three times of day, and each one acts out its weather. Clouds drift, rain falls, snow piles up, fog rolls through. If it’s windy, you see it. If there’s wildfire smoke in the air, you see that too. The sun and moon sit where they should for the time of day, and the moon is drawn in that night’s actual phase.
The numbers change color with the day, warm white at the high and pale blue at the low, so you can tell at a glance where you are in the day.
There are two versions: one for the next few hours and one for the next three days. Both pull live data from Open-Meteo, so there’s no account or key to set up.
Both are now in the Tronbyt app store, which means other people’s desks get the same little sky.