CYD Hackathon

CYD Hackathon On the 2nd and 3rd of May 2026 Duncan Thomas was kind enough to put on a hackathon at his alumni university of Aberystwyth inspired by conferences badges found at events such as DEFCON and EMF. I formed a team with Bob and together we tried to to make a cool thing. But first; some learning We were presented with some new hardware: CYD (Cheap yellow display) The CYD is an adorable little board with: ESP32 (ESP32-2432S028R if your being fussy) 320 x 240 LCD Display (2.8") Touch Screen (Resistive) RGB LED LDR. a whole host of support for fun periphals (I2c, SPI, microSD, speaker) All attendees were given one of these lovely little boards to keep courtesy of Duncan We were then shown how to flash https://docs.micropython.org bundled with lvgl to the boards using esptool, and let loose to experiment running example code and trying to work out how to do whatever we wanted the board to do for the rest of the day. Myself and Rosia spent a lot of the day trying to find accurate…