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Recently saw a guy do a really cool E-Ink display for smart homes here:

https://github.com/Madelena/esphome-weatherman-dashboard

He lists out the materials and code he used. He went with a low cost / low power ESP32 microcontroller. This is fine if you mostly want to do lower resolution, static stuff. Here you could design something that'd run off batteries for quite a while.

If you're into fancy animations, maybe some videos, then you'd need to go with something a bit more beefy, closer to a Raspberry PI running some sort of *nix, potentially with some browser to render beautiful pages :)

Obviously there's significant price difference between the two approaches, but there's also some pros and cons you'd need to consider.

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I also had a similar story. It was also early 2000s and our high school had a calendar system for each student so they could look up in which room they would have what class. So a friend of mine and I have setup a proxy server which would modify rooms randomly, or randomly cancel classes. In order to "test out" our code, we ARP+DNS spoofed the the whole school network, so anyone visiting the site internally would end up on our site. Most students thought it was super fun that their classes were "cancelled" but obviously teachers didn't approve :-)

It was also a couple of months away from our graduation, and we did get into pretty big trouble, where we got suspended, and had to write a letter of apology to the principal so they would allow us to graduate.

Nice find!

Hi fatbat,

Infact you can power it from an HDMI 1.4 + MHL port if your tv supports it!

It also comes with dual wifi cards.

We have been testing with the Pis so it's definitely working!

In fact, we will be providing images for raspberrys (based on the raspbian distro)

Thank you!! Will be updated shortly :-)

DLNA only works for a limited set of content (music/vids/pictures).

No gaming, other apps, etc.

Unless you have a TV with HDMI 1.4 + MHL which is capable of supplying enough power over HDMI (500mA).

We strive for the "clouds", and Miracast/WiDi with it's WiFi-Direct dependence isn't really future proof...

Nice, thanks! Corrected (in the code of course) ;)

That will be the next step, but it all has to start somewhere :-)