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Is 30 FPS Killing E-Paper? A Maker Ran 2.16 Million Frames on an ESP32-S3 to Find Out E-paper is supposed to be slow: great for shelf labels and e-readers, terrible for games. So when makers started running Game Boy games at 30 frames per second on cheap e-paper boards, two questions came up fast. Does the display eat the battery, and does it wear out? Bo Made It, who wrote the fast driver in the first place, measured both on a Waveshare ESP32-S3-ePaper board. The answer to the… |
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A Son Built His Offline Dad an ESP32 E-Paper Frame That Shows Which Airliner Is Flying Over the Alps Right Now Daniel Zellhuber's father lives in the Bavarian mountains, loves watching planes cross the sky, and does not use the internet. So instead of showing him a flight-tracking app, Daniel built him a small flight tracker in a picture frame. Whenever an airliner passes overhead, the colour e-paper screen shows the airline with its logo, flight number, route, aircraft type, speed and altitude. There… |
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ESP32-S3 E-Paper Board Runs a Game Boy Emulator at 30 FPS. It Barely Hit 2 FPS Before a Custom-Built Driver A developer who goes by kuslota has released InkBoy, a custom display driver and firmware that runs a Game Boy emulator at around 30 frames per second on Waveshare’s ESP32-S3-ePaper-1.54 V2 board. Waveshare specifies about 300 ms for a partial refresh on the board’s 200x200 panel, and the stock driver managed barely 2 fps in the developer’s testing. The code is on GitHub under an MIT license… |
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This Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Runs a Virtual Viking Dragon That Feeds on Nearby Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signals What if your virtual pet could find food from the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signals around you? Meet Harald, a virtual dragon created by a Raspberry Pi enthusiast. Built using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and a Waveshare V4 e-paper display, Harald treats nearby Wi-Fi networks and Bluetooth devices as food. Discovering new devices makes the dragon happier, turning everyday wireless activity into a virtual… |
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TICKEY Is a Small Clip-On Badge With an E-Ink Display That Can Show 48 Colors, Built on an ESP32 TICKEY is a compact clip-on gadget that combines a 3.7-inch, 720 × 480 color e-paper display with an ESP32-S3 microcontroller, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NFC. Instead of behaving like a normal LCD or OLED screen, its e-paper display is designed to keep a static image visible without continuously consuming display power. Users can show pixel art, photos, digital badges, QR codes, notes or personal… |
