If you’re trying to learn a new language, there are always a lot of words to learn. A word-of-the-day calendar can help, and they’re often readily available off the shelf. Or, you can grab some hardware and build your own, as [daedal-tech] did!
The project was built as a gift to help [daedal-tech]’s partner with their efforts to pick up French. Thus, a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W was employed and paired with a small Waveshare e-Paper display. These were stuffed inside a fancy light switch plate from Hobby Lobby and a small stand, the pair of which act as a pretty nice little frame for the build. The Pi runs a small Python script which employs the BeautifulSoup4 library and the Python Image library. Basically, the script grabs French words and spits them out on the display with a small description such that one might understand their meaning.
It’s a simple build, but one that has some real utility and is fun to boot. We might see more word clocks than calendars around these parts, but we love both all the same!
What a cute project! I absolutely love it.
Thanks!
Will I be able to reproduce this for Christmas? Very nice!
I can provide files for everything. Keep an eye on the project at hackaday.io
This is great, it could be a lot of fun if the words were from the Urban Dictionary, Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang, or the Encyclopedia of Graffiti. Internet do your thing!
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Great idea. This would totally be possible with BeautifulSoup4. You just need to find a url and look through the tags to find the information you are looking for.
Nice project. Maybe add a button that plays the pronunciation when pressed, it helps to remember to word.
What a timely comment. I just received the parts and will be putting this together as an upgrade. I will probably end up using an icon and the touch-screen as the button. Not sure how the sound file download and replay is going to work out. I anticipate some research and fiddling.
aujourd’hui / today is not a noun it’s an adverb
You are correct. No excuses, terrible french student. I wasn’t getting words I was happy with for a picture during testing. So I doctored up aujourd’hui for the image since it worked with the word of the day theme. I will carry this for the rest of my life unfortunately.