I see the antenna points straight at ground and buttons. Is the wifi ok?
It does not use wifi or Bluetooth.
Weathergotchi – an E-Paper Climate Logger
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#22I see the antenna points straight at ground and buttons. Is the wifi ok?
Other comment says no wifi but even if it did, those antennas don't radiate in a straight line
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#23The YouTube video [0] is quite funny, I like when someone doesn't take themselves too seriously. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I44iGj7gLGA
Andrew Quitmeyer doesn't take himself very seriously, but dogs take him VERY seriously.
Mark Your Territory - Check Into Foursquare by Peeing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRdfeb7vDWg
https://github.com/quitmeyer/Mark-Your-Territory---Pee-to-Ch...
https://www.instructables.com/Pee-to-Check-In-to-Foursquare-...
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#24The YouTube video [0] is quite funny, I like when someone doesn't take themselves too seriously. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I44iGj7gLGA
He does it all: the YouTube face, the math floating around, non-working greenscreen, some memes and then he goes camping (including a Blair Witch style run through the snow). This is so brilliant.
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#25I found some kind weather sensor like this in a creek in a sealed clear film canister-sized container.
I took it home and looked up the part number. Looks like it was probably part of a network of sensors monitoring the forest health, but some ziptie broke on this one and ended up starting to get washed away. It ran on a big watch battery. I didn't try to get the data off it.. don't recall how data access worked for it.
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#26Cool. What about porting this to pwnagotchi, then?
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#27This is charming. E-paper is such a good fit for ambient data like this — always visible, no glow, basically no power. How often do you refresh the display, and does partial refresh ghosting become a problem over time?
While I'm not sure about the exact e-paper panel model used in this project, in my experience with these small e-paper screens, a full refresh is pretty much mandatory every 10 or so partial refreshes—which is significantly worse than Kindle-level performance. Just about every screen I've worked with suffers from some level of ghosting, and it definitely gets noticeably worse in higher temperatures during the summer. Plus, these cheaper e-paper displays tend to degrade quite fast—after a couple of years, the aging becomes painfully obvious.