Hi Kevin,
you did a great job! And I was able to set the applet up on my Kobo Mini after some problems finding the right firmware (>=2.6 seems to be incompatible with pygame). Also it seems that the full_update binary leaves some artifacts of the previous page always.
However, I could fix that by the manual raw-file method. Now I try to set up an arm build chain (embedian doesn't work with Jessie) to adapt full_update and also to compile wakertc in order to turn the device on only for a couple of seconds each hour.
I extended your app and started a fork on bitbucket. If anyone can use it, be my guest! More information at:
http://bitbucket.org/david_weese/kobo-weather-app
Cheers,
Dave