Six things you can build in an afternoon

“A screen with the forecast for Prague, large colourful icons, today and three days ahead.” That sentence is the entire project. It ends up in the hallway, where people glance at it on the way out instead of unlocking a phone — and where a phone would have shown them three notifications first.

Point the project at a folder of pictures and the screen cycles through them. Full bleed, no clock in the corner, no logo, no notification sliding up from the bottom. Change the folder and every frame you own changes with it, without anyone touching the device.

Today's dishes on a screen by the door or above the counter. Someone in the kitchen edits the text, presses publish, and the screen follows within a minute — no printer, no laminator, no crossing out the soup with a marker.

An RSS feed, three large controls and nothing else. No account, no app, no algorithm deciding what plays next. Add a small add-on board with real buttons and the controls become physical, which is the difference between a device someone uses and one someone ignores.

Wi-Fi name and password, breakfast hours, check-out time, the door code, today's weather. The questions a small guesthouse answers thirty times a week, answered once and left on the wall. Each device pulls its own project, so every room can differ.

The screen in the hall that answers “is anything happening tonight?” — concerts, markets, the castle's opening hours, three at a time in letters you can read from across the room. It pulls the town's event feed and drops whatever is already over, which is the only reason a board like this is still right in March.