I wish I had his hobby money. Currently my budget for this year is three sea shells I found on my neighbors yard and a first gen raspberry pi I stole ten years ago.
How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard - Joel Hawksley
Submitted 3 weeks ago by lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://hawksley.org/2026/02/17/timeframe.html
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lauha@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
GhostlyPixel@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think I saw a tutorial on how to run doom on the three seashells, at least there’s that
sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
return both the stolen sea shells and raspberry pi and you will avoid prison
Yaky@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Neat project, but
we set an intention to have a healthy relationship with technology in our home.
Followed by photos of these schedule-reminder screens all over both homes.
doesit@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Thanks for posting this. I’ve been wanting an e paper display for b&w hotos since long. Only thing that always popped up was a very expensive thing with an art subscription.
Bakkoda@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I just saw a thousand dollar lora device and now this. I have this kind of money and even i think this is a hard no based on price alone.
ElHijoDelPilote@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is Great. Thanks for the detailed Story of your achievements. I would be greatly interested in a software app or even a full solution. Ever thought of starting a kickstarter? I would be a happy (alpha or) beta user
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
2 days later we would be putting post it bites and pieces of paper up.
Way to scheduled out and way to Annoying.
dafalcon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
super nice!
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
That 32" display is priced as “ask for a quote”, lol.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s something like $2k. Pretty insane for a project like this. You can just get the actual e-ink panels pretty cheap, but then you need to build a driver for it. Not simple.
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I know how crazy expensive e-ink is, so I was curious what this dude paid. Dropping 2k on this means you have a lot of cash lying around.
Windex007@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I like the project, but it seems like as soon as buddy got access to real-time e-ink he just never looked back.
As well, I get the UI appeal of negative space, but my god it costs a fortune in e-ink.
As everyone is noting here, this project shows a pattern of “money is no object” in every decision made.
That doesn’t mean it has to be, though. My gut tells me you could slash the cost in half while retaining like 90% of the utility.
lefixxx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is what I dislike about yhese types of dashboard projects. The eink is too costly
swicano@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
The way eink display prices scale is insane. You can get a 13 inch one for like 150, but any bigger than that it skyrockets. Must be that they still struggle to get good display yields across that large of an area, defect rates or something.
sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
but its nice ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It’s so grey.