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Train and Weather Tracker with Raspberry Pi and E-Ink

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133 points tosh | 2 comments | 29 Mar 25 18:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.421s | source
1. jgrahamc ◴[02 Apr 25 11:07 UTC] No.43555479[source]▶
Fun. I used an e-ink display for something similar (just the weather forecast) and opted to use the onboard ESP-32. I try to stay away from Raspberry Pi for simple things because it's total overkill to have an entire operating system in there.

https://blog.jgc.org/2023/04/a-personal-weather-picture-usin...

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2. stavros ◴[02 Apr 25 23:06 UTC] No.43562824[source]▶
I did something similar for my daily calendar. I don't have a writeup of the actual device, but here's the firmware that generates the calendar image:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/calumny

It's a really fun project, but I wish these Waveshare displays had more open firmware. I didn't really manage to get the ESP32 to talk to the display (or even to connect to it, as I don't have the right adapter), so I used their sample code with its weird API and I'm sending an image straight to the ESP32, rather than have the ESP32 pull it from an HTTP server, as I wanted.