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Show HN: Overhead – the planes overhead, painted on an e-ink frame

https://github.com/dmellok/tesserae-widget-overhead

Hi HN,I've been fascinated by aviation for some time now. Inspired by Fugleramme, I wanted a framed print of a cluster of aircraft over my house or a busy airport. So I built Overhead. (Photos in the README)The hero photo shows planes departing and landing in Changi, Singapore.How it worksFlight data for a location is gathered from adsb.lol and adsb.fi as a fallback. (you can also point it to...

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I don't have any kids but if I ever do, I'd get them one of those spring and wire based 30 In 1/etc kits. That's how I fell in love with electronics.
Thank you. Do you have any e-ink hardware or dashboards you run?

Show HN: Tesserae, self-hosted dashboards for e-ink panels

https://tesserae.ink/

Hi all,This is a project I’ve been working on for the last 10 or so weeks. Tesserae is a self-hosted dashboard server for e-ink panels.It allows you to build dashboards in two ways. A card-based editor that lets you tessellate different widgets side by side in resizable cells. Or a canvas editor which lets you drag and drop elements on a free-form canvas. You can also drive the canvas editor...

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Show HN: Tesserae, self-hosted dashboards for the e-paper panel you own

https://tesserae.ink/

Hi HN, this is a project I’ve been working on over the last few weeks while in between jobs. I have a weird obsession with odd display hardware. Nixie tubes, VFDs, CRTs, and of course e-paper.It turns out I had quite a collection of e-paper screens and wanted a simple way to drive them all. Something flexible, customizable, and that didn't require a cloud account. I couldn't find anything that...

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