After deciding to back the Pine64 (similar to the Raspberry Pi) on Kickstarter I needed to figure out a cool project to use it with. After getting the Pine64 working with Android and finding a relatively cheap touchscreen LCD on eBay I had the idea to build a "command center" for my life and place it in my kitchen to replace my existing family calendar and cork board.

The general idea was to have a large touchscreen monitor that used Android widgets to provide some of the following functions:

Shared Calendar (view and add)

IP Camera viewer

Stock Ticker

Weather (w/ radar)

News

Sports Scores

Overall the whole project worked out great and cost me around 150 (most of it was the touch screen). I'd love to hear ideas on how to make it even better, more comments the better.

What makes the Pine64 unique for this project is that currently Raspberry Pis cannot run the full Android OS. The Pine64 2gb runs it pretty well!