Thought I’d take a moment to share a project I just finished up called the WaniKani Carousel. Upon discovering there was an API available I thought it would be pretty cool to have a device always showing me the most recent stuff I’ve been studying. I had some extra Raspberry PIs lying around the house and thought I could write something to run on one of those boards to achieve my idea. I decided to use an e-ink screen due to the low refresh rate required and how power efficient and less of an eye sore it would be. The software to run the device is a combination of a .NET core application and a Python application. All of the code is on my github at deadcast2/WaniKaniCarousel (github.com)
For the past few days, I’ve really enjoyed having this picture frame with the PI board embedded in it hanging in my home office. It’s fun to see something always new being displayed. I may design a better version in the future since I consider this a prototype.
Let me know if any of you have any questions. Thanks for reading!
There are a few “spicy” words in WK. If you welcome clients in your office, maybe you’ll want to keep a piece of cloth around to cover it if if happen to show something like 飛び込み自殺 or 金玉
Hi Kazzeon! Thank you! Yes I could also change the algorithm to occasionally show some new words coming soon. I don’t think it would be too hard to do that. Would be fun to see some surprises.
Haha thank you for the heads up. I think I’ll be safe though since the only clients I deal with are via Zoom and in both of my cameras the e-ink screen isn’t visible. So I think I’m safe! Those are some interesting words coming up one day for me to learn though! Will be awesome when I get to your level.
Hey that’s awesome! WaniKani definitely isn’t a race or about the level. It’s really about learning and however long that takes so what. Yeah it seems if you push that WaniKani could be completed between 2 to 3 years. I’m taking it easy and trying to really enjoy the process. Just got to level 5 and have MANY lessons to do but I keep my reviews down to 0.
Nah, it just means that you set your own limit to the amount of new lessons you do based on your current number of items in apprentice. Let’s say you find that having 100 items is ok, 150 is tolerable and 200 is too much. At that point you just have to stop doing lessons (while continuing reviews) until the count goes down to something more comfortable.
Those are some interesting words coming up one day for me to learn though! Will be awesome when I get to your level.
Yeah it seems if you push that WaniKani could be completed between 2 to 3 years. I’m taking it easy and trying to really enjoy the process. Just got to level 5 and have MANY lessons to do but I keep my reviews down to 0.
