Train and Weather Tracker with Raspberry Pi and E-Ink

I finally built a Raspberry Pi project my wife loves: an e-ink train and weather tracker! If you want to build one yourself, the Github & instructions are here. Kira will be jogging to the night shift! Over the past few years, I've been on something of an e-ink journey. I started with a weather and news display (still the only post on my website that regularly gets organic traffic.) While I loved it and it looked great, a phone is a better way to check the news, and the weather only gets checked once a day. Then in 2022 while at MIT I built Jarvis, the e-ink voice-to-image display. Jarvis was a great party trick — say, "Hey Jarvis, paint me an elephant on a bowling ball in Times Square" and watch as the image gradually appeared. Notably, this was before ChatGPT, when people were still impressed by AI! Jarvis live demo is better! Then over Thanksgiving, I had some free time, a basket of spare parts, and the itch to code and build something physical. So here we are with the e-ink tra ... Read full article.