Show HN: E-Paper Life Organizer with Pico and Inky Frame

[jaeheonshim]

I made a desktop e paper display to show my calendar and to-do list to help keep me organized in college. Full source code available here: https://github.com/jaeheonshim/inky-dashboard

The display is only awoken from deep sleep mode every 30 minutes to update the information, allowing the frame to be fully battery powered. You can link your Todoist for the to-do items on the left, and you can link any calendar in iCal format (Google Calendar, Outlook, etc.) for the calendar on the right. The code can be fully customized to display just the calendar, just the to-do list, or a mix of both. Let me know if you have any ideas for what features I should add next!

[sxp]

Nice. Eink calendars are always a fun IoT project.

> The Pico isn't powerful enough to fetch the iCal data on its own, so it relies on a server program to retrieve the latest information to show on the display.

What prevents the Pico from fetching iCal data? And if you need an intermediate server, why not just have it render a bitmap/jpg and have the Pico fetch that? I used this method of a server that rendered the bitmap for my own experiments with ESP32 calendars.

[sxp]

Nice. I’m always a fan of eink calendars.

> The Pico isn't powerful enough to fetch the iCal data on its own, so it relies on a server program to retrieve the latest information to show on the display.

What prevents the Pico from fetching iCal data? And if you need an intermediate server, why not just have it render a bitmap/jpg and have the Pico fetch that? I used this method of a server that rendered the bitmap for my own experiments with ESP32 calendars.

[Raf_]

Wow, this is cool — thank you for building and sharing it! I can’t wait to have one of these on my desk :)