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$2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer

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Re: $2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer

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Post by nick49488171 »

ahartmetz wrote: post #83
rr808 wrote: post #12

One thing I would like is a small portable hdmi display to use with my headless servers when they fail to boot. Even better would show screen over network.

At a hacker conference in the early 2000s, I saw a maybe 5" cash register CRT screen on a tower server case. That was cool. It inspired me much later to buy a 7" LCD for the same purpose. You can find them as Raspberry Pi accessories. Some of them have HDMI input, most use USB for power, and they are cheap - about 50€. The downside is that they tend to be almost bare circuit boards with a bit of plexiglass framing +…

Oh this reminds me, in 2008 I built a PC case where the (normally clear acrylic) side of the computer was a backlit LCD monitor, and it could remain working and pivot outward to access inside the PC.

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Post by a2dam »

weinzierl wrote: post #21

I recently researched USB connected information displays but I am interested in e-Ink. I want - USB power + data - Open interface so I can drive it from my own software on the host (but not like a traditional monitor, I imagine more uploading pre-rendered bitmaps) - Image retention when powered off - High resolution paper like appearance - Between A5 and A4 in size - At least black, red and yellow as colors - Buttons…

Color is the hardest thing on your list. I think something that meets most other requirements is the Inkplate 10, which I’ve been using as an apartment status display for a few years now. It’s ESP32 based and I have it grabbing an image from Home Assistant every minute, which it works great for. Black and white only though.

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Post by ehnto »

dboreham wrote: post #88
ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #9

For some reason, nothing says "future" to me more than having tiny screens embedded where they're not absolutely needed. When I grew up in the 90s and 00s, screens were definitely the most expensive part of any system they belonged to. And any gadget that came with its own screen attached to it was regarded as a delicacy only for the elite. Living long enough to see "disposable" screens cheaper than literal candy get…

My first "job" between school and university was to assemble a bunch of keyboards for banking terminals. They used configurable key caps in that a printed sheet was snapped under a transparent keycap cover. I suppose I must have been working on a short production run for a small bank or a trial project, that didn't merit screen printing the keys. As I worked through countless of those keyboards I mused that what it n…

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Post by ehnto »

dboreham wrote: post #88
ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #9

For some reason, nothing says "future" to me more than having tiny screens embedded where they're not absolutely needed. When I grew up in the 90s and 00s, screens were definitely the most expensive part of any system they belonged to. And any gadget that came with its own screen attached to it was regarded as a delicacy only for the elite. Living long enough to see "disposable" screens cheaper than literal candy get…

My first "job" between school and university was to assemble a bunch of keyboards for banking terminals. They used configurable key caps in that a printed sheet was snapped under a transparent keycap cover. I suppose I must have been working on a short production run for a small bank or a trial project, that didn't merit screen printing the keys. As I worked through countless of those keyboards I mused that what it n…

That's actually been done in a few different products, I think the only enduring product though is the StreamDeck.

The most impressive was the Optimus Maximus someone else mentioned in a comment.

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Post by wordpad »

ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #9

For some reason, nothing says "future" to me more than having tiny screens embedded where they're not absolutely needed. When I grew up in the 90s and 00s, screens were definitely the most expensive part of any system they belonged to. And any gadget that came with its own screen attached to it was regarded as a delicacy only for the elite. Living long enough to see "disposable" screens cheaper than literal candy get…

And not far from that are sentient toasters and doorbells.

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Post by aloer »

There is a lot of overlap between this and "modern" nixie tube clocks such as this one:

https://www.amazon.com/LONYIABBI-Electronic-Simulation-Power...

I'd speculate those came first (kinda popular with streamers and such, I think) and they basically just added a usb port. In the product video you can even see that they arrive as individual sticks to be plugged in.

It is probably easier and cheaper to have 6x separate display & microcontroller and update each one independently

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Post by red369 »

QuantumNomad_ wrote: post #47
to11mtm wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

... I don't get why folks would want to use such ram sticks... That said, I am very appreciative of my 'inline USB-C power draw monitor' from a standpoint of understanding what kind of draw a given device has (up to it's limit ofc)

> inline USB-C power draw monitor I have a couple of those and I love them! Mine support up to 100W power draw. Before I got them, I hadn’t ever considered that a variable amount of power could be drawn by a laptop while charging. For example, right now my laptop is at 63% battery and currently charging. It’s drawing 36W at the moment. When the battery charge is lower, it’s drawing more power from the outlet, and the…

I like those monitors for finding weird, surprising (to me anyway) things - like when I charge my Framework laptop from a USB port on my work laptop (because I don’t have another power socket handy to plug them both into the wall) the Framework laptop draws twice as much power when it’s asleep as when it’s awake. The opposite way around to what I need!

From memory, 5W when running (not enough to prevent the battery slowly draining), 10W when in standby.

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wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #66
weinzierl wrote: post #21

I recently researched USB connected information displays but I am interested in e-Ink. I want - USB power + data - Open interface so I can drive it from my own software on the host (but not like a traditional monitor, I imagine more uploading pre-rendered bitmaps) - Image retention when powered off - High resolution paper like appearance - Between A5 and A4 in size - At least black, red and yellow as colors - Buttons…

>>Between A5 and A4 in size Very expensive. For $59 you can get M5PaperS3 ESP32S3 Development Kit (960x540, 4.7" eInk Display, 235 ppi) https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5papers3-esp32s3-developm... Or you can get: https://lilygo.cc/products/t5-e-paper-s3-pro But these have 4.7 inch display. You can probably hack and repurpose old e-readers if you can be bothered with the technical pain.

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