Project Description
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005011924447121.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.34.101a1802Ac59xW
Hardware Specs
- Controls: No buttons.
- Power: No battery; it uses a USB power supply.
- ESP8266
- 1.54" color display
Basically, it’s a gadget that you pair with Wi-Fi to pull all its information from the internet. It doesn't have any built-in sensors. The stock firmware, for example, gathers time, air pressure, temperature, wind, and mini three-day forecasts via various web services. You can also upload images and things like that.
My Vision:
We should keep the basic features—accurate time, weather, and forecasts—but add a new one. It could scroll text updates regarding the news of our products and some company related message.
We could build a small web service on one of our servers, and the gadget would request the latest updates (text-only is fine) from that service, just like it does with the weather, and display them.
In short: a useful little promotional gift to our customers with a bit of extra added value.
The original firmware it came with is available on GitHub, but it isn't open source. However, there are open-source projects available for this device. I found a GitHub Main page for this gadgets projects as a potential source of codes:
https://github.com/GeekMagicClock
or/and
https://github.com/Times-Z/GeekMagic-Open-Firmware
The work is to create the ESP code with all features above and a service which provides the company related informations. The service should also have a web interface where we can create the text content.