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Sponsored build competition

Here we go.

I got a cheap ESP yellow display 2.8” screen touchscreen yesterday.

I wanted to build a live train board as in the first image. My device could t do that do I settled on a live train board for one station,

I just started vibing with Claude. It said a bunch of things I didn’t understand. But I did build the original app on lovable so I had a head start.

Back and forth with Claude, visual code editor and clarifying what everything meant.

Connected to my GitHub for the train app as the life data feeds are there for rail networks.

Claude clarified, fixed errors, directed and I did as told, something my wife is not going to believe.

So, it’s up and running.

The stumbling block was I had to get the exact WiFi code which must be 2.4ghz.

Claude spotted the error of wrong type case and we went ahead..

No results in my small local station so I switched in lovable interface as by now Claude is directing that on my machine.

Insane

Next is to get a better device to be able to add the map and have more local station departures.

I’m going to see if I can do dot matrix on this one and loop in some kind of voice announcer from the actual platform announcer voice.

My son is overjoyed!

I’m going on holiday Monday and I was supposed to be packing tonight.

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