This one is nothing fancy, but it fit our workflow well. My SO has always saved recipes to a pinterest board - normally she brings a laptop to the kitchen and sets it up on a chair.
We finally took this tablet (came from corporate ewaste) and stuck it to the wall. It’s too old for most apps but it seems to work well for this. We installed pinterest, and a podcast player. Eventually I’ll check if there’s a good replacement OS for the expired android version, but I figure we’ll do a bit of a trial run, see how it’s working for us and what we need, before starting with that.
Yeah, as long as it’s all made from secondhand tech and I have some real control over it (preferably using open source for everything) I could see doing a bit of that.
Even just expanding on this could be nice - my grandparents used to have an intercom from the kitchen to the workshop. I couldn’t get their machines to work at our place (they’re some sort of magic old technology that sends data over the AC wiring, but our workshop and kitchen aren’t on the same circuit and we have lots of noise from adaptors) but some quick video call software could be nice for when one of us is down there - even better if it’s LAN only.