AutoPixelNews: A Fully-Automated Pixel Art Newsfeed — Powered by Oracle, GitHub & AI

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What happens when you give one human a free Oracle Cloud server, n8n, GitHub Pages, OpenAI, and sheer willpower?

You get AutoPixelNews — an automated system that reads happy news from RSS feeds, transforms the text into pixel art via AI, and publishes it daily to a live website.
No manual clicks. Just automation magic.

🚀 The whole system runs on Oracle Cloud Free Tier, where I self-host n8n. This was not just about automation — it was about pushing the limits of what's possible with zero-cost infrastructure.
I had to:

• Handle binary uploads to GitHub (fighting with sha errors 😵),

• Embed the latest image and source headline into HTML dynamically,

• Convert RSS text into AI prompts,

• Keep everything lean enough for a free-tier server.

💡 This isn’t just a project — it’s a mashup of cloud, automation, and creative coding, proving that:

"You don't need a budget. You need the right flow."

✅ Result:
Check it out here 👉 AutoPixelNews

☕ If you love what I’m building — or just appreciate the hustle — consider buying me a coffee:

👉 BuyMeACoffee 💖

🌐 Tech Stack Highlights

• 🧠 OpenAI Image API

• 🛠️ Oracle Cloud Free Tier (Ubuntu server + n8n self-hosted)

• 🔁 RSS Feed Integration

• 📤 GitHub REST API for binary image uploads

• 🌐 GitHub Pages as zero-cost hosting

• 💡 JavaScript/HTML for live updates

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“Real automation doesn’t just save time — it creates stories.”