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by Nursie 1318 days ago
I built a little e-ink display that sits inside my gaming PC recently. It shows the CPU and GPU temperature, the time, and a pretty fractal picture (because the tech part of the project was fun and then I couldn't be bothered with the design part!)

It was a really fun build, I used a 5.3 inch black/white/red panel from aliexpress and a waveshare rp2040 to drive it, hooked up to a spare internal usb header. Circuitpython made life pretty easy for the firmware, though I am thinking of rewriting it in C. This is mostly because circuitpython seems to get 'stuck' in a weird state, the host PC won't recognise it, and I have to open the case and hit the reset button. Every boot.

What's missing really is a 3d printed frame.