In Part I of this series, I stuck a cheap Android tablet to my fridge with fridge magnets. In Part II, I talked a little bit about Blazor and what makes a progressive web application. In Part III, I’m going to add an API that will let the fridge talk to the Internet safely.
The Internet Fridge is all about living in the future. The future comes in different sizes. Kitchen computers have been the dream for fifty years, but when I get up in the morning, the future I’m interested in is, “Is it going to rain today?”
This is a big step up from the Honeywell kitchen computer that inspired this project. It didn’t have an internet connection, mainly because the internet only had four nodes in 1969. None of them were fridges.

The Blazor sample app we started with comes with a tiny nonsense weather page. We can improve on that with some real data from https://openweathermap.org/
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