Nice project. The $15 price point is genuinely impressive for something like this.
I've been curious about e-ink displays for a while but haven't taken the plunge. What's the refresh rate like in practice? And does it actually help you notice interesting posts you'd otherwise miss, or is it more of a fun desk decoration?
Satisfying to see all the payload request and response sizes in bytes not kb.
Q: the display just starts at 0 and increments comment id by 1 every 10 seconds. Has the device caught up to latest? If you power cycle it, do you have to run through all historical comments?
Nice project. The $15 price point is genuinely impressive for something like this.
I've been curious about e-ink displays for a while but haven't taken the plunge. What's the refresh rate like in practice? And does it actually help you notice interesting posts you'd otherwise miss, or is it more of a fun desk decoration?
The refresh rate must be something like 20fps when scrolling the text of long posts. I’m not sure and haven’t measured.
While I’m working I glance at it from time to time and get a sense of the wide breadth of conversations going on at any moment.
Satisfying to see all the payload request and response sizes in bytes not kb.
Q: the display just starts at 0 and increments comment id by 1 every 10 seconds. Has the device caught up to latest? If you power cycle it, do you have to run through all historical comments?
The zero is just a magic number to indicate grab the newest. So it’s just showing the most recent comments.