Last night I turned an idle monitor and a Raspberry Pi into a fully animated cyberpunk kiosk dashboard — and honestly, it looks like something straight out of a sci-fi command center.

🧰 Setup Highlights

• 💻 Device: Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
• 🖥 Display: Top-mounted screen above my ultrawide
• 🌐 Browser: Chromium in Kiosk mode
• ⚙️ Startup: Autostarts on boot using LXDE autostart
• 🗂 Page: Local dashboard.html file — no internet required beyond APIs

🧠 Dashboard Features

• 📈 Live Stock + Crypto Ticker
  Powered by Twelve Data and CoinGecko

  • TSLA, BBAI, SEDG with real-time pricing
  • BTC, ETH, DOGE tracked in parallel

• 📰 Vertical Scrolling Headlines

  • Pulls top Hacker News stories
  • Fetches latest CISA security bulletins
  • Styled with terminal-like glow and neon sections

• 🌦 Weather Radar

  • Embedded Windy radar map for real-time storm activity

• 🌍 Cyber Threat Globe

  • Live threat tracking from Kaspersky’s global map widget

• 🖥 System Stats Panel

  • Displays CPU Temp, RAM usage, network activity (currently static, upgradeable later)

• 🎨 Matrix Rain Background

  • Full-screen green katakana “digital rain” via HTML5 canvas

⚡️ Chromium Kiosk Mode

@chromium-browser --noerrdialogs --disable-infobars --kiosk file:///home/pi/dashboard.html

Autoloads at boot using:

~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

📝 What’s Next?

• Feed in real system stats using Python backend or shell scripts
• Add cyber alerts from CVE feeds, Shodan, or NIST
• Optional camera panel for “sentry mode” vibes
• Weather alerts, geo IP logs, local device scanner (nmap)

This started as a fun experiment — but it’s quickly becoming my favorite always-on display.

Feels like I’m monitoring the grid from Zion.

💬 Want the full HTML file? I’ll share the repo soon.

Built with Hugo, fueled by caffeine, inspired by cyberpunk aesthetics.