I've attached an e-Paper display to an Onion Omega via USB-to-TTL serial adapter, mounted it in a picture frame, and exposed it to the internet. The Omega's lighttpd is serving the website and running the CGI, proxied by my dedicated server via ssh tunnel.

See http://www.pictureframeofthings.com/ to play with it live. Yes, it's sitting on my desk, updateable by anyone. The photo below is the background image for the website, which overlays a preformatted text block to present what's actually on the screen right now.

Thanks to the Onion Team for the encouragement!

The e-paper display was purchased from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00VV5IMN0/

@Guest said in Pictureframe of Things:

@Robin-Kirkman Did you glue the ethernet and USB connection to the back of the Omega?

There's no ethernet here; the blue cable is just a power-only micro-USB cable, plugged into a mini dock. The USB-to-Serial adapter is plugged into the mini dock's USB-host port.

The dock is connected to the picture frame with a piece of thick plastic foam, double-stick-taped on each side.

@Robin-Kirkman said in Pictureframe of Things:

@Guest

Source code will be finding its way onto github shortly.

Source code for the tool that talks to the display, as well as the website itself, is now available on github.

I've updated the hardware for this project slightly, and have mounted the onion omega on the back of the frame, as well as a flash drive used to increase storage space enough that I can compile directly on the picture frame.

I've updated the hardware for this project slightly, and have mounted the onion omega on the back of the frame, as well as a flash drive used to increase storage space enough that I can compile directly on the picture frame.

The e-paper display was purchased from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00VV5IMN0/

@Guest said in Pictureframe of Things:

@Robin-Kirkman Did you glue the ethernet and USB connection to the back of the Omega?

There's no ethernet here; the blue cable is just a power-only micro-USB cable, plugged into a mini dock. The USB-to-Serial adapter is plugged into the mini dock's USB-host port.

The dock is connected to the picture frame with a piece of thick plastic foam, double-stick-taped on each side.

Thanks to the Onion Team for the encouragement!

@Robin-Kirkman said in Pictureframe of Things:

@Guest

Source code will be finding its way onto github shortly.

Source code for the tool that talks to the display, as well as the website itself, is now available on github.

@Guest

Source code will be finding its way onto github shortly.

I should point out that, since the display content is user-submittable, it does get randomly vandalized with NSFW ascii art

I've attached an e-Paper display to an Onion Omega via USB-to-TTL serial adapter, mounted it in a picture frame, and exposed it to the internet. The Omega's lighttpd is serving the website and running the CGI, proxied by my dedicated server via ssh tunnel.

See http://www.pictureframeofthings.com/ to play with it live. Yes, it's sitting on my desk, updateable by anyone. The photo below is the background image for the website, which overlays a preformatted text block to present what's actually on the screen right now.