Category: IoT

A hack of the BSidesCBR 2023 conference badge.

This year I attended the BSidesCBR conference again. The conference gave each attendee a badge, which is basically an electronic board with a screen. This version is different from the eink-based one made for BSidesCBR 2021 (I have some posts about the board and there is a post about how I made an NTP clock…

A hack of the BSidesCBR 2021 conference badge – NTP Clock

The article describes a clock developed from an electronic conference badge (which was introduced here). I could make an Internet connected NTP clock that shows time on an epaper screen. Source code The source of this app can be found here.

Basic IoT with ESP32 – Fast refresh of epaper displays

This post discusses something about epaper I have been able to learn. How ePaper displays work ePaper (also called eInk) displays use colored particles (also called pigments), some are positively charged and some are negatively charged depending on their colors. For every pixel, ePaper panel can apply either positive or negative voltage to each side…

Having fun with ESP32 and epaper.

In April 2021, I attended BSides Canberra 2021, a conference on practical cyber security. The conference badge was actually an electronic board with ePaper screen. In addition to that, it is equipped with a lot of extra functionalities that may enable endless possibilities. I am planning to make some IoT applications out of it. Lets…