How it works

The premise

Flash an SD card, put it in a Raspberry Pi with a touchscreen, and it boots straight into a launcher with about sixteen display apps: weather, calendar, departures, an aircraft radar scope, Home Assistant, now playing, system monitors, clocks, a focus timer, generative art and more.

Updates come over your local network, signed and with automatic rollback if something goes wrong. Everything is set up from the touchscreen, and secrets like your calendar feed or Home Assistant token stay on the Pi’s server instead of in the browser. A redesign that turns the sixteen apps into one product is in the works.

What’s included

A flashable SD image that boots into a full-screen kiosk

Signed updates over the LAN with automatic rollback

A 25-mode screensaver to protect the panel from burn-in

Settings done entirely by touch, with no keyboard needed

How it’s built

Pi Display is built on Python, FastAPI, JavaScript, Chromium, Rust and Raspberry Pi OS.

The repository is 40% JavaScript, 26% Python, 13% Rust, 11% CSS, 5% Shell by volume.

It carries 29 commits since Sep 2026, most recently changed in Sep 2026.

How the work is done

Every project here starts as a written spec, and the spec stays the source of truth once there’s code. The repository keeps a build plan with current status, an append-only decision log of where the code departed from the plan, and a handoff document that describes where things stand, including the unfinished parts.

That’s how one person keeps this many projects moving, and it’s what this page is written from.

Current state

In development. Being worked on now.

The source is private, so the way to check what this page says is to use the product.