New experiment this weekend - driving QSPI LCD displays on the #RaspberryPi GPIO header: youtube.com/shorts/3yqpt...

Started finally tackling a mobile layout on the existing Pinout…

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For SDL fans, I just added an example to my AnimatedGIF library which plays GIF animations in a SDL window. Tested on MacOS (homebrew) and Linux: github.com/bitbank2/Ani...

Anyone got code for getting detailed system stats out of Windows - CPU temps, fan speeds etc - and into a REST API or Python for UART comms?

I tweaked the waveform I use to drive the 8-bit parallel ILI9341 LCD. Now it's gone from fast to absurdly fast. The 320x240 GIF is playing at 220FPS. youtu.be/uxlJFMY6EBg

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More speed 😀 youtu.be/3Aufe0aCyuU cc @gadgetoid.com @pimoroni.com

New toy - Waveshare 1.54" ESP32-S3 e-paper thing. I added support for it to bb_epaper as a named device (1 line init). Good power circuitry, sensors, good price.

Just finished Hacking the Pill Camera that you'd swallow for an easy endoscopy Ti CC1310 SoC Glitched and Dumped which allowed to Reverse Engineer its firmware and RF Protocol up to full Image receiving🥳 No security included but short range. 📽️🎬 here: youtu.be/qEIW5gOLzIs

I just added support for the LilyGo T-Deck Pro to bb_epaper (github.com/bitbank2/bb_...). It's a named device, so the GPIO connections and panel type are under a single name (EPD_LILYGO_T_DECK_PRO). N.B. Don't use DEEP_SLEEP because the reset line is NOT connected to an ESP32 GPIO.

New idea - use the #Raspberrypi to directly drive parallel Eink displays. Pictured - Kindle 6" 1024x758 34pin panel driven by a RPIZ2W and (one of a kind) custom PCB. youtube.com/shorts/LwGyG... Benefits - the RPI (or any Linux SBC) can create/push the pixels faster than any ESP32. low cost SBC.

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New - I added Linux support to my bb_captouch library: github.com/bitbank2/bb_... It auto-detects a bunch of common capacitive touch sensors and has a simple API.

I found a new SSD1306 OLED size a couple of weeks ago (88x48 0.50"). Now added to my OneBitDisplay library. It's even smaller than it appears in the video 😀 youtu.be/bWwEwg_2Bxw

Preparing tomorrow test of multi board PCB: Feather, Nano or XIAO adapter to drive 24 pin SPI Einks with sensors connected with QWIIC to quickly prototype your next project

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Very nice to see my longtime friend and collaborator Larry @fast-code-r-us.bsky.social show some of our collaborative in the #MakerFaireRome Great Hardware must be coupled with great Code (Firmware) thanks a lot to @ElectromakerIO for the interview www.youtube.com/watch?v=WduZ...

Finally got some copper heat sinks to test the Radxa Cubie A7z. It still runs too hot, but is relatively stable now. It's basically a RPI0 sized RPI5. It runs code 2-3x faster than an RPI4. Too small an area to dissipate that much heat. Need to find a way to lower the CPU clock speed.

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Updated the repository of BBBadge to add main goals of the PCB and a 3D render github.com/martinberlin... This project done in team with @fast-code-r-us.bsky.social was the lowest consumption project I've ever designed

Teaser video of the open source HW/SW I call 'BBBadge'. A low power e-Paper badge that can run for months from a coin cell (running the clock display shown below): youtu.be/_fxwk2cfY9U nRF52840 MCU + my bb_epaper library doing the low power magic.

A proud moment for power efficiency yesterday. I was able to get my nRF52840 ePaper badge to run well just using light sleep. It displays a clock on a 2.9" 296x128 EPD which updates every 10 seconds. With an average of 200uA current draw, it will run for several months on a coin cell.

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Last unit of Kindle v7 RAW controller www.tindie.com/products/fas... Designed in team with @fast-code-r-us.bsky.social

I've had this idea for a while - support for 3 and 4-color EPD images (compressed as G5 in 2 bit planes). Still in development, but you can try it (bb_epaper, dev branch). The tool converts PNG to G5 with color matching. Result - 8:1 lossless compression and easy to use the results.

epdiy v7 raw 5.2” parallel Eink controller FastEPD by Fasani Corporation View on Tindie #NEW #esp32

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I did a major rewrite of my OneBitDisplay library. I removed all support of e-paper displays since that's now in bb_epaper, and I added my updated compressed font+bitmap support. I'm still working on documentation and examples, but you can give it a try now if you like: github.com/bitbank2/One...

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This project brings together a lot of my work over the years (e.g. display+sensor libraries) into a frustration reduction tool. It allows you to create working starting points for your embedded projects based on your choice of hardware, and objective. For now it is only on MacOS and can only

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Oh baby! PNG Third Edition is about to be published as a Recommendation! Finally! github.com/w3c/transiti...

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Picard management tip: If you're on red alert every day, then red alert means nothing.

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More Cinepak 'madness'. My 'lite' player - runs in 8K of RAM. You sacrifice speed for memory: youtu.be/ZsI__C0lGZo The slow part is now FFMPEG's Cinepak encoder. A good FOSS project for me to optimize if I could get some funding to do it (it's what I do for a living - optimize other people's code).

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TIL today - the AVI Cinepak video player code in ScummVM is quite inefficient. Even though Cinepak is relatively "light" as a codec, I was able to speed it up quite a bit and now it runs quite well on the ESP32-S3. More info soon.