A family wall board running on a Raspberry Pi in a private home.
NewDak displays a household's Google Calendar events and Google Tasks on a wall-mounted screen in the family's home, so everyone can see the day's schedule and shared to-do list at a glance without opening an app.
It runs on a single Raspberry Pi and drives a single display in one house. The screen shows four things: the day's schedule, a shared task list that can be checked off by tapping the screen, the local weather forecast, and a joke.
NewDak is a personal, single-household application. It is not a hosted service, it has no public sign-up, no user accounts of its own, and no customers. The only people who use it are the members of the household that operates the device, each of whom connects their own Google account from inside the home.
openid and userinfo.email — to record which
account was connected, so it can be labelled and disconnected later.
calendar.readonly — to read upcoming events and render the
day's schedule. NewDak never creates, edits, or deletes events.
tasks — to read the shared task list and mark items complete.
The display is touch-enabled and tasks are checked off by tapping them on
the wall, which is why this is read/write rather than read-only.
Calendar and task data is fetched by the Pi, cached on the Pi, and shown on the Pi's own display. It is never transmitted anywhere else, and there is no analytics, advertising, or tracking of any kind. See the privacy policy for the full detail.
This board belongs to one family. If you live here, enter the household password to see it. Everything above describes the app and needs no sign-in.