Image: u/Ok-Beat-734 on Reddit · The e-ink frame on a shelf showing a chess puzzle
An e-ink picture frame with 17 plugins on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
A Pi Zero 2 W behind a 7.3-inch Inky Impression runs an open-source frame made with Claude, cycling weather, calendar and 15 other screens in 13 designs.
Credits
- Reddit poster Ok-Beat-734 Source ↗
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The full story
An e-ink picture frame made from a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W behind a 7.3-inch Pimoroni Inky Impression Spectra panel, built with Claude and released as open source.
Each screen is a plugin: weather and calendar, a daily Lichess chess puzzle, a word clock, the Spotify cover of what's playing, bin days, birthdays, river levels, solar output, a guest Wi-Fi QR code and more. There are 13 designs, from Bauhaus to blueprint, and every plugin has its own layout in each, translated into 12 languages.
Because the Spectra 6 panel only has six colours, every layout is drawn around them instead of dithering. A full redraw takes about 15 seconds.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Made an e-ink picture frame with Claude – 17 plugins, every one in 13 designs (open source)Reddit poster: Ok-Beat-734Posted
The maker's post in r/raspberry_pi, with a video of the frame in demo mode.