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This would be really cool to have running embedded in a digital photo frame or wall painting.
by lawlessone 3y ago
This would be really cool to have running embedded in a digital photo frame or wall painting.
- eigenvalue 3y agoGreat idea, where every 10 hours or so it would refresh with a new image it created itself (perhaps based on a theme supplied by the user).
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- amelius 3y agoNot very environment-friendly, though.
- aftbit 3y agoWhy do you say that? The energy usage of inference? I would guess that the embodied energy of the digital photo frame is probably higher.
- agilob 3y agoDude, we are literally using single use plastic bottles to store water for a few weeks in them.
- dopidopHN 3y agoNothing is stopping you to buy a reusable bottle.
- amelius 3y agoWe are literally using LED lighting because it saves energy over conventional light bulbs. And now we're going to put a screen on the wall that we don't even look at 99% of the time?
- BHSPitMonkey 3y agoIf we're doing one bad thing already, we may as well do a hundred!
- lawlessone 3y agoCompared to what though? I think it might be friendlier in some aspects than fetching an image from a server running the big the models. And you don't have to worry about service disruptions or api keys An e-ink display doing it should only use energy when refreshes. And you could minimize refreshes to once a day, week, etc Less friendly than a photo of course.
- nathanfig 3y ago2.5A 5V is not much power, and it would use considerably less when idling.
- notjtrig 3y ago125 watt hours for a raspberry pi to generate an image in 10 hours compared to 7 watt hours for a 440W PC to run for 1 minute.
- lawlessone 3y agoIs this for a regular Pi . The OP post is using a Pi Zero 2. That is big though
- numpad0 3y agoThat's where $1999 color E Ink display comes into play.
- lawlessone 3y agoThere are cheaper.. but it might require dithering..
- naillo 3y agoWatch 5 seconds of a tv show with your big tv and you've spent that environmental cost
- isoprophlex 3y agoI'm building exactly that with an eink display atm. Sadly, i can't seem to be able to build the XNNPACK stuff on my pi zero 2W in the repo...
- chasd00 3y agothat's an awesome idea, do you have a link to more information?
- isoprophlex 3y agoIll write it up once it's done and post here, if it gains traction you might see it haha. In all seriousness I can give a brief overview: - I'll probably offload the image generation to the 5 year old intel nuc I already have as a home automation server, comfyUI in CPU mode takes 20-30 mins for a generation. Ideally it's all self contained on the Pi but that might be beyond me, skill wise. - prompts are composed by taking time of day, season, special occasions (birthdays, xmas etc); adding random subjects from a long manually curated list; then asking gpt4 to creatively remix the prompt for variety - i have an inky impression 7.3 inch 7 color eink display and a raspberry zero stuck onto it. Right now it'll simply download new images from the NUC every once in a while - i like wood and i dislike the jagged 3d printer aesthetic so I'll create a frame from laser cut plywood by designing some stackable svg shapes in inkscape and sending those to a laser cutter It works right now, functionally. Considering that I'm painstakingly writing this on a phone with a sleeping 3 week old baby on my chest it'll be while before i have the energy to make it look like something you'd hang on your wall
- ionwake 3y agoSounds awesome what’s your Twitter ?
- changelink 3y agoI've built this a while back, using a previous version that runs Stable Diffusion on a raspberry pi zero 2 w: https://hackaday.com/2023/09/19/e-paper-news-feed-illustrates-the-headlines-with-ai-generated-images/ https://hackaday.com/2023/09/19/e-paper-news-feed-illustrate... https://github.com/rvdveen/epaper-slow-generative-art/ https://github.com/rvdveen/epaper-slow-generative-art/