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Just basically starting and kicking around the idea of a Django-based (only because I know it so well) server that I can tie to a touch screen, either attached to an Rpi or reusing an old tablet to help us communicate with my mother in law who is going through dementia. Some days are ok, others are not; I suspect there are times she could express exactly what she wants or is wondering about but the words crash into each other like a train derailment.

I’ve got pages of ideas but little code so far because I keep getting overwhelmed about UI ideas. This is as big a challenge as you could hope for simplicity. The little code I do have is me playing with an endpoint that can do text to speech so I can relay arbitrary info to her via speech as needed (weather, memos, etc) but there’s a git repo and some notes if anyone wants to sign up to kick me in the ass every week or so.



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