On my birthday a few weeks ago, one of things I got was something I've wanted to play with for a while, the Divoom Pixoo64 pixel frame. This is pixel art frame you can hang on your wall and with an app, select art, clock faces, and more. It's fun, although the app itself isn't my favorite. But - what excites me is that it has an API you can use to change what's shown on the frame. I actually built a demo of this with Webflow you can see below: Play Video I was thinking about how else I could play with the API and decided to do something a bit risky - build a tool that lets you (yes, you!) send me a message right to my device. How did I do it? Let me describe the process from the bottom up. The Python Server At the lowest level is a Python server running on my machine. Yes, this isn't persistent and not stable, but who cares. The server handles accepting a string to display and rendering it on the Pixoo: from http.server import ThreadingHTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler from…
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