Here, I share. The doubts, the progress, the mistakes. What I learn from families who share their story. This is not a corporate blog. It's a logbook.
A Raspberry Pi, a touchscreen ordered without really knowing what it was, zero Python, and a father with Alzheimer's whose birthday was approaching. The honest account of a week that changed everything.
Read the article →What she actually uses. What she doesn't. What helped her through grief. An unfiltered account of what a tablet becomes when it's part of someone's life.
Read the article →I could have chosen a connected photo frame. What those contracts really say about your photos. AI, fraud, and the choice to stay in a closed, family-controlled environment.
Read the article →Family photos, weather, algorithm-free news, radio at a touch: SimoneBox features explained — and what's happening under the hood of the Raspberry Pi.
Read the article →Three times a day, SimoneBox retrieves France TV headlines, finds each article's photo, assembles the image and generates the QR code. Here's how.
Read the article →Advanced Linux, systemd, security hardening, WireGuard VPN, Python/Flask, monitoring — an honest checklist of the skills needed to deploy and run SimoneBox independently.
Read the article →I built this app with one rule: thirty seconds maximum, from phone to my mother's screen. No account, no install, on a closed network. Simplicity as the only requirement.
Read the article →Commercial digital photo frames push your photos through unknown servers and charge a monthly fee. There's another way — and it does far more than just show photos.
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