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AxWax

I've been listening to all day during , but couldn't use my phone's touchscreen while wearing gloves, so I thought it'd be a great day for field testing my display prototype, using a Pico Inky Pack E-paper display for the .

It shows the currently playing track, lets me switch between main, comfy and specialty, and I can generate a QR code to take me straight to the artist profile or their music.


Tags: #radiofreefedi #oliveharvest #RFF #pimoroni #RaspberryPiPico #thicktrunktuesday #micropython #olives

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James

The hashtag (@simon) is a great idea, so I'll be throwing a few of mine in 🙂
This is a .
Folks tend to use them with the default code as nerdy conference badges, but I coaxed mine into holding the schedule for Thinking Digital this year.
Let me know if you're interested in the code, and I can clean it up and release it. I reckon the most useful is the bit that wraps text to a box?


One of my ongoing is maintaining techdiary.co.uk/
It's an aggregator for local meetup listings - tech, startup, design etc. events across North East England, and has been running since 2010 with almost 3,000 curated listings across about 3 major code rebuilds.
There's a full admin panel, user login, and a decent (unused) API.
Some features, such as weekly digest emails and Twitter postings have gone offline due to code integration rot. Some day I'll get those booted back up!

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Tags: #projects #pimoroni #badger2040

Mentions: @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net

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