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inkystarmap – an always up to date starmap on the wall
Last year I did a talk at Pycon Ireland 2024 about e-ink displays, in which I gave several examples of ways you can program e-ink displays on a Raspberry Pi with Python. For this talk I developed one extra application: displaying a star map on an e-ink display. But the e-ink displays I had available back then were a bit small for this purpose.
Enter Pimoroni’s new Inky Impression 13.3 inch e-ink display. As soon as it arrived, I worked on the star map again. It turned out that 9 months later, some things had changed. But after 2 evenings experimenting, I got a new working version. Now utilising the gradient display of the Python package starplot. On the new 13.3 inch display with brighter colours, it worked perfectly.
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