This Kindle was supposed to be obsolete. The tiny LCD beside it was designed to do little more than...
This Kindle was supposed to be obsolete.
The tiny LCD beside it was designed to do little more than rotate a slide show.
Now both show live transit departures, weather, tasks, and anything else I can pull from an API—and I control them from the same self-hosted dashboard.
No custom firmware on the LCD. No soldering. No cloud subscription.
It started with a cheap Chinese display:
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