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by Lord_Zero 29 days ago
The real magic is the esp32, it talks to the steam box with Bluetooth. A Linux app sends metrics to the esp32 and it refreshes the display.
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preisschild 29 days ago
Why would you use esp32/bluetooth though and not just SPI/i2c directly?
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patja 29 days ago
It seems like one of the design goals was separation/independence. It also doesn't need a battery if it is meant to be tightly coupled with the Steam Machine. Which is nice for opening it up to many alternate uses.
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