This project started as just an afternoon mess around with an Arduino kit. It started with just messages to the display, then developed into something more. I made some animations. I then figured a buzzer be cool with the animations and why not add dimming for the display. Next I messed with some inputs; displaying the readings from the thumb stick on the display. Then it was time for something more complex, I added the IR censor and an LED then used Arduino code to link the buttons on a remote to different modes on the display. After tinkering for a bit with different modes I remembered I had a Raspberry Pi lying about and interfaced it with the Arduino. To allow them to communicate I made a simple REST API to allow the Arduino to request time updates for the digital clock mode so it never goes out of sync even without a wired in RTC module.