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by stavros 991 days ago
I did kind of the same thing with a LilyGo display, and it looks amazing:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/making-the-timeframe/

I had to turn it into a generic signage platform first (it lets you show any image you want), and then screenshot GCal onto that image. It works really well, though.

Nowadays it's an electronic power meter, which also looks great.

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I didn't realise they made 4.7inch version. I find that a little small for my uses but you really did a lot with it. Nice project.

I made a solar powered conways game of life with an esp32 and a 4.2 waveshare display but the whole time I wanted a few more pixels.

I have a 7.3 inch, 7 color eink display coming in the mail. Built-in raspberry pico with wifi. Can't wait till it gets here... < 100 usd price, it sounds too good to be true.

Edit: can you believe it? https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/inky-frame-7-3?variant=40...

I've been playing with one of those for the last month, made a little household dashboard thing: https://twitter.com/reillywood/status/1705373370215449033

The refresh time blows (something like 30 seconds), but otherwise I've been pretty happy with it.