Josh Hendrickson's Old Under-Cabinet Radio Gets Replaced by a Raspberry Pi-Powered Weather Display

Maker Josh Hendrickson has turned an ultrawide display into an under-cabinet multi-function smart clock with weather forecasting, by adding a Raspberry Pi single-board computer and a replacement 3D-printed housing.

"When I bought my house, it came with one of those under-cabinet radio clocks that somehow survived the early 2000s. It technically worked… until power outages and daylight saving time reminded me it absolutely did not," Hendrickson explains. "So I replaced it with something better. This DIY smart home display runs on a Raspberry Pi, uses an affordable ultrawide screen, and is designed to live under a cabinet so it's always visible but never in the way. No touchscreen. No voice assistant. No app. Just the time and weather when you glance up."

The build is centered around a Wisecoco-branded 8.8" ultrawide IPS display, with a 1920×480 resolution. It's designed for use as a secondary or tertiary display on a desktop or laptop, for showing system stats — but in Hendrickson's case has had its original housing removed to relocate its power and HDMI ports. The new 3D-printed case, considerably deeper than the original, includes screw lugs to mount it under a cabinet and, crucially, enough room for a full-size Raspberry Pi 4 Model B or Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computer.

Once booted, the display runs an app, written in JavaScript and using Electron for the display side of things, which pulls down weather and time data and formats it for the screen. "It's possible to change out the icons, add a background and even specify backgrounds for day and night," Hendrickson notes of its configurability. "[It] supports Imperial, Metric, and 12 hour or 24 hour clock modes."

The project is documented in full on Instructables, with 3D print files and source code available on GitHub under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license.