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Gathers information and returns an image of this val

Why

I'm using this val for my 3-color e-ink display run by a Raspberry Pi Zero W. The Pi runs a cron job that tell's it to fetch this url twice a day and render it to the display. Works like a charm.

Right now I'm not displaying much but I'm going to keep iterating on what type of information I want to display.

How

I'll post more info on my set up here later if you want to try something similar. But I assume this workflow could be used for lot's of different projects that don't have a ton of compute or where you don't want to learn how to actually draw things to a screen like all the e-ink display libraries.

Code
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stevekrouse avatar

So cool!! Reminds me of two things:

  1. My @stevekrouse/bigWeather, which is a lot like this and I LOVE it. I check it multiple times a day, every day.
  2. @dupontgu's electronic bumper sticker, which initially got data as an image from a val (like yours), but later to save on bandwidth moved to generating the image locally on device