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-We almost always want to know the day's weather before leaving the apartment. Often the whole event is quite a hassle: getting our daughter dressed, finding all our personal outwear, plus trying to find your phone to check the weather. To make the experience 1% better, the solution obviously needs engineering.
+We almost always want to know today's weather before leaving the apartment. Often the whole event is quite a hassle: getting our daughter dressed, finding all our personal outwear, plus trying to find your phone to check the weather. To make the experience 1% better, the solution obviously needs engineering.
 
 I decided to build a DIY battery-powered E-Ink weather display for our home. After researching a while, I ended up with a few goals for the build:
 
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-I really like the end result. The IKEA frame has a white cardboard border, which we ended up cutting to fit the screen. To not have mismatching aspect ratios of the white cardboard border and the frame itself, I sacrifised a few vertical pixels of the E-Ink display. The white cover board opening is vertically shorter than what the E-Ink display is capable of, leaving a bit of Y-pixels unused. A bit of a shame, but the overall look is most important!
+I really like the end result. The IKEA frame has a white cardboard border, which we ended up cutting to fit the screen. To not have mismatching aspect ratios of the white cardboard border and the frame itself, I sacrificed a few vertical pixels of the E-Ink display. The white cover board opening is vertically shorter than what the E-Ink display is capable of, leaving some Y-pixels unused. A bit of a shame, but the overall look is most important!
 
 One option I considered was to saw the frame to be a perfect fit for the screen. However, it could've lead to a messy end result and it was much easier to mount everything to the back cover with the extra space.
 
 
-The project took 3 weeks in calendar time. I'm gladly surprised of quick turnaround time. It didn't happen by chance though. I purposely chose familiar hardware and software to make the development a easier. The idea was to actually finish the project, even though lower-level tinkering would've been educational and beneficial.
+The project took 3 weeks in calendar time. I was positively surprised about the quick turnaround time. It didn't happen by chance though. I purposely chose familiar hardware and software to make the development a easier. The idea was to actually finish the project, even though lower-level tinkering would've been educational and beneficial.
 
 That's everything, it was fun!