Collaborate Disseminate
The e-paper “dashboard” is something we’ve seen plenty of times here at Hackaday. Use it to show your daily schedule, the news, weather, maybe the latest posts from your favorite …read more Continue reading Inkycal Makes Short Work of e-Paper Dashboards
Just like the clock clock of old, there’s something magical about a giant wall of smaller pieces working together to make a larger version of that thing. The E-Paper Wall …read more Continue reading E-Paper Wall Paper
If you follow the exploits of [Aaron Christophel] (and trust us, you should), you’ll know that for some time now he’s been rather obsessed with electronic price tags, specifically those …read more Continue reading A Handy Breakout Board For E-Paper Hacking
Clock builds are a hacker staple, and many overflow with power-thirsty LEDs and network features. This build from [mattwach] takes quite the opposite approach, sipping away at its batteries thanks …read more Continue reading E-Paper Clock Displays Things In A Battery-Friendly Manner
The past year has been quite a ride for everyone on Earth. But you never know which day is going to be your last, so you might as well live …read more Continue reading Sunlight-Based Life Clock Predicts Your Darkest Hour
Waveshare, know for e-ink components aimed at hobbyists among other cool parts, has recently released a very interesting addition to their product line. This is an enclosed e-ink display which gets updated over a wireless NFC connection. By that description, nothing head-turning, but the kicker is that there is no …read more
Continue reading New Part Day: Battery-Less NFC E-Paper Display
[Ramin Assadollahi] uses his Raspberry Pi Zero W as a self-contained mobile desktop, connecting to it over VNC from another computer when he wants to hack away at some code or work on a new project. But he often found himself wishing there was some convenient way of displaying pertinent into right on the device, such as what IP address the Pi Zero had pulled. Then he found the 2.13 inch e-Paper HAT for the Pi Zero from Waveshare, and it all clicked into place.
The final device, which he refers to as the StickPi, combines a Pi Zero W, …read more
Continue reading Pocket-size Pi Zero Desktop features e-paper Display
The ESP8266 has become practically the 555 chip of WiFi connected microcontrollers. Traditionally, you’d buy one on a little breakout board with some pins and a few connectors, and then wire up anything else you need. The ESP8266’s big brother, the ESP32, hasn’t quite taken over from the ESP8266, but it has a lot more power and many more options. [Andreas] has a new video that shows seven new ESP32 boards that have integral displays. These boards can simplify a lot of applications where you need both WiFi and a user interface.
Of the boards examined, six of them have …read more