Imagine a small, inexpensive device that can be mounted within an interior office window facing outwards (such as those by your professor’s door) and used to display messages from the occupant of that office, such as “Back in 5 minutes”, “Out to lunch”, or “Offices hours cancelled due to illness”. Now imagine that device un-tethered to any external network connection or wall-based power supply when in use, and also allowing the occupant to update the displayed message regardless of location. The code updates the screen whenever a new message is sent, and turns power off at the end of the day to save power.
With this project you will be able to create this device for yourself!
# The Photon Code and Files
https://github.com/g-snelling/DIYOfficeNetworkBoard
# Purchase Materials
If you want to buy the materials to build this yourself, please follow these links!
Particle Photon: https://www.adafruit.com/product/2721
4.2inch E-Ink Display Module: https://www.waveshare.com/product/4.2inch-e-paper-module-c.htm
Photon Battery Shield: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13626
Lithium Ion Battery Pack 3.7V 4400mAh: https://www.adafruit.com/product/354?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIo_vO3rL63gIVwiJpCh0BtA-NEAkYBSABEgITyPD_BwE
# Other Materials Needed
Other Required Materials needed prior to building are:
3D Printed Case
Printed PCB
All files to build yourself or to outsource are within the GitHub folders!
# Thank you!
A HUGE thank you to Kevin Sidwar for all his help! For more fun IoT projects go check out his channel!
https://www.youtube.com/user/microcasts/featured
Thanks so much for watching!
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“MALE” headers! who does that guy think he is
Sweet video! Looks like it was a fun project