I Built a Retro TV Station with AI

When I was a kid I used to fall asleep to the Weather Channel with the smooth jazz going underneath. My brother and I loved that vibe so much we tried to make our own on our Radio Shack computer. So I built a real one. Check out Relay7 - http://www.campmograph.com/relay7 Relay 7 is a 24/7 retro TV station that runs entirely in a web browser. One HTML page, vanilla JavaScript, CSS handling the visuals. It pulls live weather from the National Weather Service, plays smooth jazz on a continuous loop, and rotates through a dozen segment types on a timer. Every single day it shows up with more content based on what day it is. It's a television station broadcasting on a spaceship heading to Camp Mograph 2026, a motion design conference in Elbert, Colorado this September. Captain Vance is in the pilot seat, drifting through space for six months, and the station plays throughout the ship. Weather, fake commercials, security cameras (he's microwaving a donut for some reason), a chillhop station, a TV guide channel with a fake cartoon, an AI DJ named Artis who knows all the Camp Mograph lore and Discord memes, and a news ticker with hundreds of headlines. "You're watching Relay 7, because the playlist is locked, and so are the doors." I break down the four layers that render together in real time: content data at the bottom, the JavaScript engine in the middle, CSS making it look like a broadcast, and a VHS overlay on top with scan lines, tracking wobble, and color bleed. Then I walk through how Claude generated all the content using my Camp Mograph Obsidian vault as context: lore bible, meeting transcripts, sponsor info, event timelines, character backstories, and the scavenger hunt structure, all feeding into content that evolves off itself day by day. The lore is kind of writing itself as it goes. I get surprised sometimes. There's just so much of it. AI handled the content, the scoping, the building, the debugging. The creative direction came from me as a person who told it what to do with all of this. How do you build a website with AI? Can Claude AI build a full web app? How do you make a retro TV station website? What is the best AI tool for web development? How do you create a VHS overlay with CSS? Can AI generate website content? How do you use Obsidian with Claude for web projects? How do you build a Weather Channel style website? How do you use ElevenLabs for AI voiceover? 00:00 - Weather Channel nostalgia 00:17 - This is Relay 7 00:51 - The four layers 01:56 - The broadcast tour 04:15 - Chillhop and the DJ 05:24 - The lore writes itself 06:28 - Claude + Obsidian content pipeline 08:02 - Loop rules 10:20 - The debugger 12:33 - Running on a real TV at camp 13:25 - What's next: the AI cartoon pipeline Tools mentioned: Claude Desktop App, Claude Cowork, Obsidian (free), Netlify (free), Weather.gov API (free), ElevenLabs, After Effects My Website - https://www.nexusmotion.com/ Instagram -   / nexusmotioninc   Instagram -   / mographdave   Follow Me -   / mographdotcom   #claudeai #webdev #retro #motiondesign #campmograph #aiworkflow #javascript #css #vhs #broadcast #obsidian #claudecowork #netlify #webdesign #weatherchannel #nostalgia #smoothjazz #elevenlabs #chillhop