[lxe]

Cute, and with small adjustments, I'd be legitimately using this. There are just better ways to interpret things:

1. Make the bending trees signify wind direction. Have to get creative with north and south, but a tree bent down vs out can do, and the bend or size and clustering of trees should signify magnitude of the wind.

2. Put sunrise and sunset as literally sun over the horizon, not the sun and moon.

3. Make the night sky shaded differently than day

4. Don't start at "current time" but rather a fixed point, either morning or midnight, and specify the "now" via the location of the house

[lds133]

The idea offers plenty of room for creativity, but I was limited by the small black-and-white screen. There's no way to show trees bending in the wind or snails crawling across it. However, there's still space in the sky to add fun elements, like a stork for someone's birthday or Santa's sleigh during the holidays. I'm waiting for larger, full-color E-Ink screens to become affordable.

[andai]

Another comment posted a project using waveshares 7 inch color epaper ($85).

[folli]

All good points, agreed. Except #4, would be cute if there's some animal that moves along instead of the house.

And perhaps playing with some kind of isometric perspective could help visualize wind directions?

[xattt]

> Would be cute if there's some animal that moves along instead of the house.

I can suggest a snail with a shell that has a window and a chimney out the back!

It can also be a something man-made but playful like a freight train with a caboose. You’d only see the back end of the train and it would move off screen over the course of the day.

Mind you, trains are now ruined for me with John Oliver’s production of Thomas the tank engine.

[efitz]

Maybe shadows (length and direction) could give a sense of time of day, along with shading of sky and land.