EMF Location Dashboard

EMF started yesterday, and last week I wanted to do something nerdy to justify my attendance. To quote the website: Electromagnetic Field is a non-profit camping festival for those with an inquisitive mind or an interest in making things: hackers, artists, geeks, crafters, scientists, and engineers So, as conversation of attendance, and the site began to be set up, the nerdy bug caught me and I decided to build a thing. Last time I went to EMF, I found that I kept losing people on site (because it’s quite large). So maybe I could build something to help people returning to my tent to find out where I was. Cue the ‘Where in the EMF are people?!’ dashboard. A completely overengineered alternative to texting me. A TRMNL to hang outside our tent Architecture # I bought a TRMNL ePaper display late last year, and I decided it would be a quick way to display data about where I am. The device dials out to the trmnl cloud and loads a pre-rendered image. It’s a tiny device that literally only…