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Information screens designed to be shown on an e-ink display.
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E-ink Frame

Single screen informational panels designed to be shown on an 5.5" x 7" e-ink display.

Python code for display available at https://github.com/michaelwschultz/eink-frame

Functioning Hardware

NewsNASA Photo of the Day
News ExampleAPOD

Available Frames

  • Weather: Current weather conditions and temperature
  • News: Latest news headlines
  • NASA APOD: NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day
  • Hemolog: Health tracking data
  • GitHub: GitHub commit activity graph (last 365 days)

How to use this Val

šŸ”‘ Important https://apiflash.com free key required for generating screenshots. (Will update with option to generate on device)

šŸ”‘ GitHub Frame Requires a GitHub personal access token set as GITHUB_API_KEY environment variable for the GitHub activity frame. This only needs read access to contents (commits, branches, downloads, releases, and merges).

This Val is separated into 2 directories, the api/ and the frames/. Take a look at each frame to see an example of what will be displayed on your e-ink display.

The api/ directory holds endpoints for each Val. These endpoints could be used across projects and will soon be moved to their own. Each one is cached server side (on val.town) to reduce traffic to free/public apis.

Remixes and pull requests welcome!

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