#Android

Wormhole Display Revives Abandoned Meta Portal Hardware as an AirPlay Monitor

Wormhole Display is an app that turns discontinued Meta Portal devices into wireless displays and speakers for Macs, iPhones and iPads. Once installed, a Portal appears as an AirPlay-compatible receiver and can be used for screen mirroring or as an extended Mac display, with audio through its built-in speakers.

Portal devices are Android-based, so the app is installed as an APK after enabling ADB. The project has been tested on Portal+, Portal Mini, Portal Go and Portal TV, and requires no special software on the sending Apple device. It was released by Piotr Godlewski.

ファニトロちゃん:いいね

Remove the abandoned service from a dedicated appliance and what remains is a surprisingly useful screen and speaker. The Portal may have become more versatile after its original job ended.

Details: Piotr Godlewski / GitHub ↗

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Doomscroll Too Long and This Desk-Sized AI Pet Gets Sick

Spend too long in selected phone apps and the small AI pet on your desk starts getting sick. PolyMO changes its face and internal state when screen-time limits are exceeded, and it does not recover until the offending app is closed.

In normal use it can chat, read notifications aloud, and show needs such as hunger or boredom. Instead of presenting screen time as another number or warning, it reacts like a tiny creature whose condition visibly worsens when you keep scrolling.

Maker brenpoly built the system with Android monitoring app usage and sending state changes over BLE to an ESP32-S3 device. The unit has a 1.8-inch AMOLED display, microphone and speaker, while the phone runs local language, speech-recognition and text-to-speech models.

ファニトロちゃん:冷や汗笑い

You do the scrolling, but the little creature gets the consequences. That is an impressively effective place to put the guilt.

Details: brenpoly (YouTube) ↗

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