I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard
How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard 2026-02-17 TL;DR: Over the past decade, I’ve worked to build the perfect family dashboard system for our home, called Timeframe. Combining calendar, weather, and smart home data, it’s become an important part of our daily lives. When Caitlin and I got married a decade ago, we set an intention to have a healthy relationship with technology in our home. We kept our bedroom free of any screens, charging our devices elsewhere overnight. But we missed our calendar and weather apps. Initial prototypes So I set out to build a solution to our problem. First, I constructed a Magic Mirror using an off-the-shelf medicine cabinet and LCD display with its frame removed. It showed the calendar and weather data we needed: But it was hard to read…
