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There's a lotta cool/interesting applications for a tiny display like that. Thanks for sharing. :).
by ISL 6y ago
There's a lotta cool/interesting applications for a tiny display like that. Thanks for sharing. :).
- TedDoesntTalk 6y agoOther than watch-like functions, can you give me some ideas?
- jepler 6y agowatch lofi hip hop radio, of course. https://learn.adafruit.com/lofi-hip-hop-raspberry-pi-radio-braincraft https://learn.adafruit.com/lofi-hip-hop-raspberry-pi-radio-b...
- jcims 6y agoThat's pretty cool. That joystick looking thing made me think it would be cool to have some old school knobs to change the (youtube) channel.
- sgroppino 6y agoOriginally I was just using it to display the IP addresses after reboot on a smaller 0.96" 80x160. Then a screen shot... then zoom. I'm thinking more about some QR code with basic sysinfo.
- samstave 6y agoQR for status or info on anything is the winner here... can you array these off a single PI? Imagine this: An installation where there is an array of these screens - they are associated with whatever you want info on - they cycle btwn a screenshot of the item, some basic text (like IP/UPC/Barcode/QR to a fully detailed product/item page, uptime/health status...) etc... And you can just have a PI running a bunch of these on a 42" rack, or on shelves of retail items etc....
- lostlogin 6y agoYou can probably do this off an esp32 without too much trouble.
- samstave 6y agoPlease educate me on where I should go for esp32?
- BigJ1211 6y agoYou can get those on banggood and aliexpress for incredibly cheap as well. You can look into nordic stuff as well for bluetooth related microboards to develop on. If you're just starting out I can recommend looking at m5 which has nice little kits to get started. It's a bit pricier though. https://m5stack.com https://m5stack.com
- djbeadle 6y agoThe M5 kits caught my eye at MicroCenter a few weeks back when I was doing some holiday shopping, I couldn't tell if they were just toys or actually useful. Any pointers on them?
- jburgess777 6y agoM5Stack is an AWS partner for a new “AWS IoT EduKit” so I imagine you will be seeing more projects using them in IoT roles. The getting started guide has some examples. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/12/introducing-aws-iot-edukit/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/12/introduci...
- lostlogin 6y agoI went to a local electronics store and got one. I then looked on AliExpress and found them for a fraction of the price. I mainly use ESP8266, as it’s cheaper but it’s less powerful and doesn’t have 5v output, just 3.3v (or at least the ones I have were like this). I don’t have any real coding skill but between the Arduino IDE, ESPHome, MQTT and some mucking about, I got where I wanted to be. The sensors are so inexpensive and there are so many (light, temperature, fire, smoke, moisture, humidity, distance, gasses, weight, open/close, current etc). It’s really impressive what is out there.
- tra3 6y agoSame thing you’d use a blink (1) for. Long build jobs notifications. Slack notifications. Temperature display. Lots of use cases. 1: https://blink1.thingm.com/ https://blink1.thingm.com/
- noisy_boy 6y agoHow about embedding them in a split keyboard in the middle so I don't even need to move my hand off the keyboard? E.g. I can just touch and jump to any part of the open file? Won't be very accurate due to the small size but sometimes I just need to go to a specific section and then I can scroll.
- ehnto 6y agoI guess the line number and use the jump to line shortcut.
- nabilt 6y agoI used a similar screen to display the user interface for my DIY reflow oven. The raspberry Pi and Linux is overkill for this project, but it's so much easier building a GUI than on a microcontroller. https://nabil.me/2020/12/01/diy-reflow-oven-w-exhaust-build-part-1/ https://nabil.me/2020/12/01/diy-reflow-oven-w-exhaust-build-...
- Scoundreller 6y agoReminds me of the first atomic clock wristwatch: http://leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-bill/ http://leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-bill/ > Batteries are included (they last about 45 minutes but are rechargeable)
- drzaiusapelord 6y agoSupposedly, that retails for about $30,000.
- jrockway 6y agoDepending on your tolerance for accuracy, rubidium standards are much cheaper and smaller. Obviously the second is defined in terms of cesium, so if you really want to be the reference clock for your entire country, you're going to need to shell out the cash for a cesium standard. But if you merely want to be within a nanosecond per day, rubidium is fine for that.
- herodoturtle 6y agoIn a mini server farm like the one we're running at work you could stick one on each box and run htop or something along those lines. Cool for a sys admin to have a status display of each physical box's htop graph at a glance.
- tjungblut 6y agoit actually reminds me of the Logitech G15 that I had over a decade ago (or G19 as the later model). The screen can be used to show some stats like CPU and RAM usage, or for games some kind of extra information like your health, your ammo count etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech_G19 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech_G19
- lostlogin 6y agoI have one in an IT little closet at home that displays a few stats. Temperatures, line speed, my public IP, a few PiHole stats, NAS storage space, etc. Another screen shows a few values from temp and humidity sensors that some esp chips are collecting.
- scotty79 6y agoNot sure why but the first thing that came to my mind was making HamsterTV set for your hamster. I don't even own a hamster currently and haven't owned one in few decades. I think I'm watching way too much random youtube makers.
- Jeema101 6y agoI like where you're going with this. The hamster will of course also need buttons to change the channel to other hamster-related programming if he or she so desires. :)
- Mauricebranagh 6y agoEureka the next big thing is Peleton for Hampsters :-) Edit for the BT labs injoke
- Mauricebranagh 6y agoA display for a pihole or a display for a pi based streamer
- vyrotek 6y agoMaybe something like Stream Deck?
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- roel_v 6y agoI ordered a few by accident from AliExpress and they showed up yesterday. I don't know for the life of me what to do with them. I was thinking maybe as a temperature/humidity monitor thing, but it would have to be mains powered because I don't think there's a way to make a device like this diy'able (with arduino and dht22 level components) and make it run off a battery for more than a few months. So any suggestions are good.
- chris_st 6y agoLook into the low-power mode of whatever microcontroller you're using... I did an AT-Tiny85 project, and it burned through the battery. I then switched to low power for a while, and it draws micro-amps (!) when in low-power mode, so the battery would have lasted hundreds of times longer. Oh... umm... the display, yeah. Maybe have an on-button for the display to power it up only when you want it?