Night Gallery — an ambient learning canvas for your TV

Three functions, always

• Teach

  A chess puzzle to sit with between tasks, its solution hidden until later. A framed chess position from a famous game, an opening, or an endgame study, its key squares marked in gold. A concept card drawn from a library of 585, spanning fourteen subjects, one at a time.

• Run in the background

  Nothing to click, nothing that needs an answer. The rotation moves on its own, quietly, whether or not anyone is in the room.

• Make the room beautiful

  Every card is decor first, lesson second. Between them, slow ambient light lets the room breathe.

The collection

585 cards, 121 chess puzzles, 59 chess positions, fourteen tags.

Including sixty Danish words, idioms and institutions, from overskud to fjumreår.

• Dansk60
• Systems50
• Electronics50
• Chess50
• Geography45
• Farsi35
• Latin35
• Sun Tzu25
• Math45
• Physics35
• Design30
• History25
• Security50
• Thinking50

The chess puzzles and positions sit outside these fourteen tags. Every puzzle is machine-verified: a chess engine confirms it has exactly one solution before it ships.

See it now

Open the gallery in your browser: the same file that runs on the TV.

Open the gallery

→ next card  ·  ← previous card  ·  OK pause

Put it on your TV

1. Clone the repository. git clone https://github.com/cocodedk/night-gallery.git
2. Run the checks. npm run check: the same syntax, unit, compatibility and end-to-end gates the project runs before any install of its own.
3. Put the TV in developer mode. Apps panel → type 12345 → toggle Developer mode on → set this machine’s IP as the host → reboot the TV.
4. Install it. npm run install-tv: finds the TV on the network, packages and signs the widget, installs it, and launches it.

Packaging requires a Tizen Studio signing profile of your own. See the repository README for the full setup.