This is a small wifi powered photo frame that runs on battery (for a long time). For showing the photos, it uses a three color (black, white, red) 2.13" e-ink display with a resolution of 104x212 pixels.
The e-ink display only need power when updating the photo, which mean that the photo frame is running in deep sleep most of the time. It works as follows:
This is how a drawing looks like. Updating the display is quite slow which is a characteristics of the e-ink/ePaper display. You can see that it first draw black followed by red. This is in real time:
Design wise, there is not much happening. The box is sized to fit the 2.13" e-ink, a LiPo 3.7V 3000mAh battery, the ESP-32-S2 mini and a DC-DC step up converter.
Server side, there is a bunch of stuff happening.
Parodically (a couple of times a month), a index of all my Google Photo are downloaded. Not the photos themselves, but just the index. When the photo frame is requesting a photo (using http), in short this is what is happening:
I will upload all the source code! There are a bunch of different things and scripts going on to make all of this work. I need to document and format them a bit first, so stay tuned.
The author marked this model as their own original creation.