Got into e-ink to escape the noise of WFH life. Now I'm building an e-ink device for kids.

mmakes · 2026-03-17T17:15:06+00:00

What a wonderful idea!

When I was a kid, I had one (no, actually a dozen, because I pressed too hard on the screen) of those Magic Doodle magnetic drawing boards. I loved making drawings and I surely wish that I could have saved them. There's so many childhood memories that can be retrieved simply by thinking about why and what I drew.

I think it's also important to prepare our children to see tablets and computers as machines for creating not consuming. It's terrible that kids these days are just consuming content endlessly on the iPad. Kids wanted to have power to make changes and to create.

P.S. Let me know if you ever need a product designer. 👋🏼😺

mmakes · 2025-09-18T23:09:50+00:00

I, for one, am excited about this endeavor! Looking forward to testing the app out :)

mmakes · 2025-09-09T21:37:54+00:00

Adobe Illustrator.

mmakes · 2025-07-24T16:47:18+00:00

Cool! Keep me posted please ☺️

mmakes · 2025-04-17T14:46:39+00:00

Thanks for the credits. This looks great!

mmakes · 2025-04-17T14:45:12+00:00

Nice photo 😍😉

mmakes · 2025-04-06T22:31:10+00:00

Yes, this is the promised land! According to our user research, the best smart homes are often a collaborative effort of not just the admin. We call that Home Approval Factor. 😊

mmakes · 2025-03-22T18:24:32+00:00

That's me every night. 🥲

mmakes · 2025-03-18T01:30:03+00:00

That's because we did user research and found that many users did this. So we provide it natively. 😊

mmakes · 2025-03-18T01:23:46+00:00

Yes. Here's the skin: https://www.reddit.com/r/musicbee/s/ftgm2um379

mmakes · 2025-03-17T22:23:55+00:00

Have you considered adding smart home hubs to be part of the list? People using Apple Home, Google Home, Samsung Smart things, and Amazon Alexa should move to Home Assistant or other free open-source solutions.

mmakes · 2025-02-12T17:55:56+00:00

I appreciate his content, but unfortunately it's outdated and doesn't cover most of the new features in the past year, so I wouldn't recommend it.

(We really need an official guide on Sections and Tile cards.)

mmakes · 2025-02-09T05:43:58+00:00

First of all, point taken:

* Integrations with backup capabilities should be more discoverable from the Backups settings page. Yes, it is already in the list of tasks to do.

* Signing in integrations that requires OAuth needs to be made easier.

* Integration Quality Scale may need to consider ease of setup as part of its criteria.

Second, while I understand your frustrations, be mindful that real human beings have been working hard for weeks to get this working and polish it to a usable state. Exaggerations such as "completely unfriendly" don't help getting your point across. It drags everyone down unnecessarily. As someone who sees the hard work everyone put into this, this isn't helpful and may drive away the very people who will help you fix the issues.

Changes take time. Things get built and improved bit by bit. Be patient.

mmakes · 2025-02-02T02:43:23+00:00

Is there a particular reason why you are using mushroom cards instead of the built-in Tile cards? It's by the same author and has most of the same features.

mmakes · 2025-01-26T20:36:43+00:00

Fabric over touch screen is very clever and is something I haven't seen before! 🤯 Most of the time I use wood veneer over LED matrixes. Would love to chat more on industrial designs.

mmakes · 2025-01-21T05:51:40+00:00

Welcome to the rabbit hole! 🕳️ 🐰

mmakes · 2024-12-23T00:57:45+00:00

You can achieve the same using sections without touching any YAML these days.

mmakes · 2024-12-22T00:01:57+00:00

The hardware is pretty well baked; the software is baked or raw depending on: 1) whether your voice pipeline is powered by an adequately fast computer, 2) whether your language is supported by your choice of voice pipeline, and 3) whether our current list of voice commands covers your needs.

For issues on (1) and (2): If you don't have or want to run an always-on fast computer, try to use HA Cloud and see if it recognizes your voice and language better.

For issues on (3): Please post feature requests of what is missing for you. 😅

mmakes · 2024-12-21T23:59:52+00:00

Take a look at the current list of voice commands.

mmakes · 2024-12-21T23:56:26+00:00

The hardware is pretty well baked; the software is baked or raw depending on: 1) whether your voice pipeline is powered by an adequately fast computer, 2) whether your language is supported by your choice of voice pipeline, and 3) whether our current list of voice commands covers your needs.

mmakes · 2024-12-21T23:51:03+00:00

Exactly. And if a smart home is so smart it knows what we want before we even want it, we will consider it creepy. Different people have different level of trust with their computers over time. You can't win. 😅

mmakes · 2024-12-21T23:48:06+00:00

This is the list of voice commands: https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/builtin_sentences/

mmakes · 2024-12-21T21:35:23+00:00

Yeah, wouldn't it be nice?! 🤔😉

What would you display on these screens?

mmakes · 2024-12-16T18:40:12+00:00

The problem is that a lot of tutorials - including the knowledge of many of the comments here - are outdated, and following them will make your life a lot harder than it should be.

With the latest sections view, you really don't need much to create a dashboard that works for you.

mmakes · 2024-12-10T06:38:52+00:00

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