I made an agentic "Daily Brief" for my kids with a receipt printer
I made an agentic "Daily Brief" for my kids with a receipt printer

I made an agentic "Daily Brief" for my kids with a receipt printer

I made an agentic "Daily Brief" for my kids with a receipt printer

What it does: Agents gather and curate data and send to a wifi-enabled receipt printer (phenol-free paper)

  • At 1:00am a cron triggers generation of data for all 3 kids (unique data sources per kid where applicable).
  • A sidecar web service renders the data to templates, screenshots it, converts it to 1-bit with dithering and saves it back to the agent’s thread filesystem.
  • Button presses (one per kid) then find a matching report for today's date (and trigger a generation if it's missing for some reason) and send it to the printer. Delay between button press and print is between 2-5 seconds.

Morning daily briefs per kid at the press of a button! Fun, and the kids love it!

(This demo print is using mock child data — not real information).

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