Cooking Area Monitor

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My friend just moved into their first apartment and in their cooking area they have a broken clock / radio. They like the idea of having a clock in there and some music to listen to while they cook. I thought it would be nice to make them a monitor that displays time/day/date and the weather. It would be great if it could also have a music library from a usb stick. Lastly I'd really like for the controller to also handle some LED under cabinet lighting. Nothing more than 8 feet. Is this even possible?

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An Arduino UNO or a Metro 328 with a Music Maker shield and a real-time clock module could handle the music and timekeeping.

You could add some leds to that, but it would be simpler just to give them their own processor. Something tiny like a Pro Trinket or a Metro Mini could handle the leds easily.

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Would it be possible to get all of this on a TFT display? Doesn't need to be a large display. I'd like for it to be controlled all by the same board. Could you do this on a raspberry pi?

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LEDs, SD cards and displays all tend to take up a lot of memory. Putting all of that on one board will be taxing the memory capabilities of a standard Arduino. Trying to juggle all tasks at once while keeping things responsive is tricky to do on an Arduino. You might be better off with a Pi.

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Would there be a way to get all of these to work on a Pi? Are there any tutorials showing how to link such things? Also, by using a TFt does the take up all the pins on the Pi, rendering it incapable of linking to other devices such as LED / Speaker?

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Is there any chance that this -> https://www.adafruit.com/products/678, would work with this -> https://www.adafruit.com/products/2440.

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Would there be a way to get all of these to work on a Pi? Are there any tutorials showing how to link such things?

I'm sure it is possible. We do not have a tutorial that does exactly what you want all together. But we do have tutorials for the individual functions. If you are new at this, it is better to start simple and take on one function at a time.

Also, by using a TFt does the take up all the pins on the Pi, rendering it incapable of linking to other devices such as LED / Speaker?

No.

Is there any chance that this -> https://www.adafruit.com/products/678, would work with this -> https://www.adafruit.com/products/2440.

The controller is RGB. It would drive only 3 out of the 4 channels on an RGBW strip.. This strip is a better match: http://www.adafruit.com/products/346