06/2021
I added a new meme dashboard
https://github.com/JieGH/Epaper-Dashboard_7.5inch/tree/master/AnotherDesign/AnotherDesign
A epaper dashboard based on Waveshare 7.5 inch epaper display and ESP8266 to display news headlines and weather
Version 0.1
- Issues: 1) Poorly RAM managenment, code is poorly wrriten 2) Most of the Code has no comments
- New Issues: news API fetching fail since 04/2019
This project received great help from Kevin Darrah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IuqL-4UftA&t=233s http://www.kevindarrah.com/wiki/index.php?title=EPaperBoard
The library used can be found in Relevant_documents folder
The ESP8266 will fetch the weather information and news headlines from internet by accessing metoffice weather api https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/datapoint and https://newsapi.org/ api. Then the information will display by the 7.5 inch waveshare eink diaplay.
The outcome of the set up is shown in below
The wiring of this setup is simply using SPI by a ribben cable attached on a waveshare esp8266 eink driver board https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/E-Paper_ESP8266_Driver_Board