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.
Remember Tamagotchis? Those little egg-shaped keychains with a pixelated pet that got hungry, got sad, and, if you were a negligent eight-year-old like me, got dead during math class.
I built one. Except mine has a 368×448 AMOLED screen, an accelerometer, a speaker... and its brain runs on AWS.
Meet Cloudagotchi:
What it does
It gets hungry while the device is off : time passes in the cloud, not on the chip. EventBridge Scheduler decides when it's dinner time.
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