I made a solar-powered, ePaper photo frame
Hardware
solar-powered e-paper photo frame
SHOW HN2020
27points
11comments
#1,464of 3,028 in 2020
Top 49%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
1 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Design: 1 for, 0 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Nice design and fun perpetual-motion concept
From 1 comment
Very nice. I'm a big fan of these types of "perpetual motion" computers. The project reminds me of https://developers.google.com/gdata/articles/radish which was a solar cell +…
sxp on HN
Cool project
From 1 comment
Cool project! The ARM cpu is way overkill but gets easy setup points. You could probably get away with a hidden Peltier to harvest the room vs wall temperature difference if you…
pcdoodle on HN
Objections
ARM CPU is overkill for the task
From 1 comment
Cool project! The ARM cpu is way overkill but gets easy setup points. You could probably get away with a hidden Peltier to harvest the room vs wall temperature difference if you…
pcdoodle on HN
Display of a website is costly with a large ePaper panel
From 2 comments
I'd pay a 100$ to make this load a website every hour/day
purplecats on HNThe part about displaying a website every day is trivial, though that budget will not take you very far for a decently sized ePaper panel. Here's hoping that prices will go down…
jamez on HN
Requests
Use a black one-piece solar border or tinted glass for aesthetics
From 1 comment
Very nice. I'm a big fan of these types of "perpetual motion" computers. The project reminds me of https://developers.google.com/gdata/articles/radish which was a solar cell +…
sxp on HN
Add thermoelectric energy harvesting
From 1 comment
Cool project! The ARM cpu is way overkill but gets easy setup points. You could probably get away with a hidden Peltier to harvest the room vs wall temperature difference if you…
pcdoodle on HN
Questions
How to get an ESP32 to fetch and display images
From 1 comment
Always tried to make the ESP32 fetch an image, but never succeeded (with Arduino though)
bert2002 on HN
Alternatives named
Inkplate
From 1 comment
https://inkplate.io/ fits that bill, but I think this project with solar does much better
m463 on HN
Google Calendar radish LCD room display
From 1 comment
Very nice. I'm a big fan of these types of "perpetual motion" computers. The project reminds me of https://developers.google.com/gdata/articles/radish which was a solar cell +…
sxp on HN