⚡️👀 FUN FACT - An internet user turned a simple Walmart supermarket price tag into a mini-screen displaying the Bitcoin price, using the artificial intelligence system Claude. These small tags, normally used to display product prices, feature an e-ink screen. By reprogramming them, it becomes possible to display financial charts, images, or other customized information. The most interesting part is that these screens consume very little energy and retain their display even without a continuous power supply. image

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- The brain: A local language model runs on a Raspberry Pi 5 or a small mini PC, using a tool such as Ollama or llama.cpp. This machine fetches data, decides what is worth showing, and generates the content. - The transmitter: A low-cost ESP32-based access point, such as one running OpenEPaperLink, sends images to the tag over radio. - The display: The tag itself receives the image and shows it. It does nothing else.
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