Category: Pico

This is the latest post detailing my foray into building a small Raspberry Pi Pico/e-ink display. You can find the start of this journey here.

I need to put the Pico into a low power mode in order maintain a decent battery life. Following on from my aborted attempt to build new MicroPython firmware that would enable the Pico to sleep, I stumbled upon a Power Control library that claims to allow you to various bits of the Pico’s hardware.

Spare time has been at a bit of a premium recently. Work has been keeping me especially busy just lately, and then the release of Civilization VII successfully stopped me getting anything else done for at least another weekend. All that meant that my little Pico/e-Ink project had to take a back seat for a little while. Now it’s time to get it moving again.

I had a crazy idea recently. That, in itself, isn’t that unusual, what’s odd about this one is that I actually followed through with it. Here’s how it went: E-ink displays seem to be becoming pretty commonplace, and once set to display something require no power. Would it be possible to build something small enough to stick on the side of the fridge, that could display some useful information that updated periodically. For example, something that told me which bins I need to put out every Sunday. I need a smart fridge magnet.