patrIoT

Daily AI generated patriotic images on the Adafruit MagTag

Client Requirements

Use the included boot.py to remount the internal storage as read/write after boot. Hold down the A / left-most face button (D15) to disable this and instead allow your PC write to the circuitpy drive over USB.

import storage

storage.remount("/", readonly=False)

MagTag code is written in CircuitPython. The following libraries are required:

• Adafruit MagTag
• Adafruit MagTag Libraries
  • adafruit_bitmap_font
  • adafruit_imageload
  • adafruit_io
  • adafruit_magtag
  • adafruit_minimqtt
  • adafruit_requests
  • adafruit_ticks
  • simpleio
  • socketpool
  • ssl
  • wifi

Server Requirements

See server/requirements.txt

Usage

The server-side code runs as a systemd timer once every 24 hours. It generates a new patriotic image via the OpenAI DALL-E-3 API.

The MagTag reaches out to the server every 24 hours to get the latest image and display it.