Pikchr Ep 1: So I have a weatherman, which also tells me the news
I was reading this wonderful blog post from Yogiraj H on their project with a eInk screen.
In their article they shared an image of their architecture.
I’ve recently learned about Pikchr and really loved the idea behind this diagramming language.
I’d thought it’d be fun to copy “by hand” the diagrams I find in the wild. Here’s my attempt at it!
Click to see the code
A: [
Weather: box invisible "weather"
box invisible "Todo" "Reading"
Markets: box invisible "Markets"
box invisible "AQI" "Moon" at .5 below Weather
News: box invisible "Hacker News" width 200%
]
HTTPServer: box thin "HTTP Server" radius .25cm with .w at 1.5cm right of A.e
WeatherAPI: box thin "Weather/AQI" radius .25cm with .w at HTTPServer.e + (1cm, 1.5cm)
HN: box thin "HN" radius .25cm with .w at HTTPServer.e + (1cm, 0cm)
Yahoo: box thin "Yahoo Finance" radius .25cm with .w at HTTPServer.e + (1cm, -1.5cm)
Border: box thin radius .25cm width A.width height A.height at A.center
text "Display + ESP32" with .n at 0.1cm below A.s
line thin from A.Weather.ne then to A.News.sw
line thin from A.Weather.sw then to A.Markets.se
line thin from A.Markets.nw then to A.Markets.sw
line -> from A.e + (3px, 5px) to HTTPServer.w + (-3px, -10px)
line -> from WeatherAPI.w to HTTPServer.ne + (6px, -5px)
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