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7/20/2026

The original title is "I built a Tamagotchi with its brain in AWS (and it reads me the news)"
Original: I built a Tamagotchi with its brain in AWS (and it reads me the news)
Short summary
A developer built Cloudagotchi, a Tamagotchi with an ESP32 body and AWS brain, using IoT Core, Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge, and a Bedrock-to-Polly pipeline for morning news briefings. The full architecture mirrors real connected-device designs and costs under $1/month. A four-part open-source tutorial series covers mutual-TLS MQTT, LVGL UI, serverless state management, and embedded audio streaming.
- •ESP32 device uses AWS IoT Core with mutual TLS; all state lives in DynamoDB and Lambda
- •Bedrock rewrites headlines in pet voice, Polly synthesizes speech, S3 serves audio
- •Open-source code on GitHub; four-part series with per-article git branches
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