Raspberry Pi weekend projects, before and after AI
A Reddit post comparing hobby builds with and without AI help.
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Six years ago the maker spent a weekend building an LCD dashboard for a Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi, following a display guide and Pi-hole's documentation.
This time, on the same old display, they built nexclock: a dashboard showing several time zones, multiple calendars, weather and system stats, pulling data from weather and calendar APIs. Apart from installing the display driver they looked nothing up; Claude Code did the rest.
Both projects took about a weekend, but the second does far more. Both repositories are public.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Raspberry Pi Weekends Projects, before and and after AI-assisted coding
The maker's post in r/ClaudeCode comparing the two Pi dashboards, with links to both repositories.
The poster has deleted it, but the original is still readable (it can take a few seconds to load): archived copy of Reddit: Raspberry Pi Weekends Projects, before and and after AI-assisted coding (opens in a new tab)