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

Reddit r/artificial 05/12/26, 06:46 PM Tools

Summary

The author built an agentic system that automates daily briefs for their children, using cron jobs and a web service to generate and print personalized reports via 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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