I like to be immersed in useful information, and often dreamed of ways to have it literally floating above me so that I could glance up and see something new and interesting.
A few years ago I mounted a 43" Fire TV above my desk, tie-wrapped a Raspberry Pi to the back of it, and used MagicMirror to create the display of my dreams. I have spent several years improving my display and am finally ready to tell you all about it!
MagicMirror is a mature piece of open source code with a very active community. The base package includes a default set of modules, and there are hundreds more available. Most of these modules were built by developers to “scratch their own itch”, and subsequently shared far and wide, also in open source form.