[bravura]

I've never used esp32/arduino. How does it compare writing some low key Python on RPi and blitting an image to the display?

[xyx0826]

With an ESP32 or comparable (RPi Pico W, for example) you get MicroPython or CircuitPython support! That means a Python interpreter, drivers for popular peripherals and usually a network stack. Performance doesn’t beat a native SDK but Python is Python.