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An e-ink frame for sending handwritten notes to a partner
An ESP32 e-ink photo frame that receives drawings, notes and photos from a phone app, with Claude helping get the prototype working end to end.
Credits
- Reddit poster cyfk829 Source ↗
- Repository account wcandillon Source ↗
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The full story
Started during a long-distance relationship, this is a 7.5-inch Waveshare e-ink frame in the partner's home that shows photos, handwritten notes and drawings sent from a phone. A cloud server does all the rendering, and the ESP32 polls over wifi and downloads new images.
The maker's background is software and ML, and they say Claude helped a lot in getting the end-to-end prototype working. They have been using it for a few weeks and say it works well.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: A e-ink frame that lets me send handwritten notes and photos to my partnerReddit poster: cyfk829Posted
The maker's post on r/esp32.
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- The code: github.comRepository account: wcandillon
Linked in the post.
- Reddit: A e-ink frame that lets me send handwritten notes and photos to my partner
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