Description: Spencer Owen
A couple of years ago I saw that somebody on the internet had made a Slow Movie Player, and that piqued my interest. The basic idea is that your favourite film is displayed on a screen at a really slow framerate. Eink displays are ideal for this as they use no power except for when updating the image. Their refresh rate is pretty poor compared to OLED displays, but if you’re only updating once a minute, that’s fine. A decent size eink display is pretty expensive though, so this idea went on the back burner.
Earlier this year, Pimoroni released the Badger . A small eink display with a built in RP2040 (Raspbrry Pi Pico) which was ideal as a programmable name badge – hence the name. This was really cool, although I didn’t have a need for a name badge. This also went on the back burner.
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