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Weathergotchi – an E-Paper Climate Logger

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Re: Weathergotchi – an E-Paper Climate Logger

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Post by mghackerlady »

Waterluvian wrote: post #2

I’ve been wanting to do some projects like this from the software side. I want an e-ink display + ESP32 inside a case. But I don’t want to do that myself for the nth time as it doesn’t feel novel or interesting. Is there any decent hardware option that begins fully open? Also: If I take very good care of my Weathergotchi, do I get to change the weather?

Adafruit has a pretty cool esp32 based board with a circular touchscreen and dial

Re: Weathergotchi – an E-Paper Climate Logger

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Post by neom »

voidUpdate wrote: post #6

I get the weather- part, but I don't get the -gotchi part... Do you have to keep the device alive by... seeing new types of weather?

Uotchi is the Japanese word for watch. Tamago (egg) and Uotchi (watch) - so here they're implying "Weather Watch", it should probably be Weatherotchi or something, but still works fine imo. Korea and Japan love smashing words together to make new words, for example in Korea "Chimaek" is Chikin (치킨 - fried chicken) + Maekju (맥주 - beer), something Koreans often ask if you'd like to go out for.

Re: Weathergotchi – an E-Paper Climate Logger

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Post by Xirdus »

latexr wrote: post #4

Calling this a tamagotchi is silly. The only thing this and tamagotchis have in common is that they’re small electronic devices with a screen (and even that tech is different). When you compare a project to something that it isn’t, you’re doing it a disservice. The people who are intrigued by the tamagotchi angle are disappointed, while the people who are uninterested in it (but might still like the project) won’t ev…

It's marketing. Attach yourself to some wildly more popular brand for no reason other than to boost your own popularity. Like JavaScript did with Java.

Re: Weathergotchi – an E-Paper Climate Logger

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Post by whacked_new »

world2vec wrote: post #8

The YouTube video [0] is quite funny, I like when someone doesn't take themselves too seriously. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I44iGj7gLGA

Ouch, shade on the SensorPush. I had 2 and I got 2 more. It requires an app, but they're quite well made imho.

But yes, open source would be better. If physical portability is not a requirement, Xiaomi hygrometer 2 with this custom firmware https://github.com/atc1441/atc_MiThermometer is quite excellent

Re: Weathergotchi – an E-Paper Climate Logger

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Post by whacked_new »

Waterluvian wrote: post #2

I’ve been wanting to do some projects like this from the software side. I want an e-ink display + ESP32 inside a case. But I don’t want to do that myself for the nth time as it doesn’t feel novel or interesting. Is there any decent hardware option that begins fully open? Also: If I take very good care of my Weathergotchi, do I get to change the weather?

Here's one that I just ordered myself: https://www.waveshare.com/esp32-s3-epaper-1.54.htm

temperature, humidity, audio in AND out!!!

Re: Weathergotchi – an E-Paper Climate Logger

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Post by latexr »

Xirdus wrote: post #15
latexr wrote: post #4

Calling this a tamagotchi is silly. The only thing this and tamagotchis have in common is that they’re small electronic devices with a screen (and even that tech is different). When you compare a project to something that it isn’t, you’re doing it a disservice. The people who are intrigued by the tamagotchi angle are disappointed, while the people who are uninterested in it (but might still like the project) won’t ev…

It's marketing. Attach yourself to some wildly more popular brand for no reason other than to boost your own popularity. Like JavaScript did with Java.

Except the repo doesn’t mention “tamagotchi” even once. Even the “gotchi” in the name only appears once in the README.

I’m talking about the submitted title to HN.

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