And with some probability some malware.
$2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it is oled it will be a perfectly black background.
The author of the article admits he's never actually seen the item he's reviewing. The pictures are from the manufacturer. It may be a cool gadget, but it may be vaporware and/or blogspam.
… or the real thing powered on and operating may actually look bad and people would not buy it if they knew what reading it would be like in practice.
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#1430.96-inch USB display dongle -> ⁶¹/₆₄″ USB display dongle
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#144The 0.96“ OLEDs (not all of them true RGB) have been dirt cheap on AliExpress for years now.
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#145This kind of "tinkering stuff" makes me want to buy it just because. Of course, once I have it, it will end up inside the drawer collecting dust along with my RPi, ESP32, etc...
“The project” - your creative drive to “do a project with this device” is completely fulfilled by purchasing.
It’s a strange thing but there’s a direct line from creative desire to buying then not doing.
This is why I have so much electronics junk it’s all projects that I “completed” when I hit the buy button on Aliexpress.
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#146What's stopping this thing from keylogging or inserting keystrokes? Malicious USB devices are fairly common, and this certainly has the 'right' form factor. There's a reason 'do not plug in a USB drive you have found in the parking lot' is reiterated in every corp security training.
Keylogging? Just how do you think it can read any keystrokes? As for inserting keystrokes, that will be obvious if it enumerates as a keyboard. You should turn down your paranoia a little more.
I think the paranoia stems from the HID inserting winflag+r, powershell curl https... which installs keylogging software. It can do that after a 10 minute or so countdown timer so it might not seem immediately obvious, or might seem like part of a auto-update with powershell postinstall.
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#147This kind of "tinkering stuff" makes me want to buy it just because. Of course, once I have it, it will end up inside the drawer collecting dust along with my RPi, ESP32, etc...
Ha, I also have an RPi, Pinephone box. Sad that these Linux phones were basically a hope-scam.
The hope is still alive
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#148I feel like the winning move here would be to put the screen on a ball joint or hinge to give more options than just “face forward” v. “face backward”.
Probably can’t do that for $2.
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#149This kind of "tinkering stuff" makes me want to buy it just because. Of course, once I have it, it will end up inside the drawer collecting dust along with my RPi, ESP32, etc...
This is just an ESP32 with a display
In a neat package/form factor and software. And for 2$. I don’t see a reason why you’d buy the components separate, it’ll probably cost you way more time and money. Or am I missing the point of your comment?
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#150This kind of "tinkering stuff" makes me want to buy it just because. Of course, once I have it, it will end up inside the drawer collecting dust along with my RPi, ESP32, etc...
I hate it when I buy some microcontroller doodad and then open my electronics drawer and see that I had one already!