Olivier Leplus

The finale: every morning, Bedrock summarizes the AWS news in my pet's voice, Polly makes it squeaky, and a $30 ESP32 reads it to me out loud. A Tamagotchi with a job.

Lambda decides, DynamoDB remembers, EventBridge Scheduler makes time pass. My ESP32 Tamagotchi finally has feelings... and consequences for ignoring it.

My cloud-brained Tamagotchi gets a body: a sprite-based face on the AMOLED, blinking, dozing off when ignored, and shake detection with the onboard IMU. Plus the display war stories nobody warns you about.

I'm turning a $30 ESP32-S3 AMOLED board into a Tamagotchi whose brain runs on AWS. Part 1: the architecture, and getting the device talking to AWS IoT Core.

Meet Cloudagotchi, a virtual pet on a $30 ESP32 board whose feelings live in DynamoDB, whose metabolism runs on EventBridge, and who reads me the AWS news every morning. A 4-part build series is coming.

Run an LLM in the browser with no backend. A hands-on guide to the built-in Summarizer and Prompt APIs — image input and schema-constrained JSON.