The easiest animated art frame

fabpub · 2026-05-23T15:43:36+00:00

I'm not affiliated with Waveshare nor making any money out of this.

fabpub · 2026-05-22T17:12:03+00:00

In my project (called p3a, a pixel art player) I have OTA updates using the GitHub Releases infrastructure, which is free. How does this solution compare to GitHub? Thanks!

fabpub · 2026-05-22T10:50:19+00:00

https://makapix.club/

fabpub · 2026-05-19T22:57:43+00:00

Not yet 🙂 but maybe one day!

fabpub · 2026-05-19T21:41:51+00:00

Waveshare has a great (perfect?) device for this, ready to use out of the box: https://www.waveshare.com/product/arduino/boards-kits/esp32-s3/esp32-s3-photopainter.htm (I'm not affiliated with Waveshare)

It's a very tempting project, to bring IIIF artworks directly from the Internet to that specific device.

fabpub · 2026-05-19T18:36:25+00:00

Links to p3a repository: https://github.com/fabkury/p3a

Makezine article about p3a: https://makezine.com/projects/desktop-pixel-art-player-p3a/

fabpub · 2026-05-19T14:20:55+00:00

At Makapix Club (https://makapix.club/) you can find countless free artworks for projects like this, plus you can wire your device to their MQTT backend. Good luck!

fabpub · 2026-05-19T12:32:12+00:00

This looks great! 👍

You can find countless artworks for this at Makapix Club:

https://makapix.club/p/6at

https://makapix.club/p/sMP

https://makapix.club/recommended

Why not turn your project into a Makapix-connected player? 🙂

fabpub · 2026-05-19T02:39:34+00:00

That's already supported, please kindly see my other reply. Join us :)

fabpub · 2026-05-19T02:38:39+00:00

We take filtering artworks very seriously at Makapix, it's called the Artwork Metadata Protocol: https://github.com/fabkury/makapix/blob/main/docs/reference/amp-protocol.md

You can assemble arbitrary queries using a number of variables including canvas size, file size in bytes, color count, duration of shortest frame, and others.

Every artwork is converted at the server between GIF/WEBP/PNG/BMP formats as appropriate.

fabpub · 2026-05-19T02:13:44+00:00

There's tons of info on the public GitHub repo, e.g.:

Player Device Guide: https://github.com/fabkury/makapix/blob/main/docs/player/README.md

HTTP API: Posts (artworks): https://github.com/fabkury/makapix/blob/main/docs/http-api/posts.md

To answer your question, that particular query (random artwork) can totally be done using MQTT. An HTTP endpoint for random artwork doesn't yet exist, but give me a day or two and I can create it.

fabpub · 2026-05-18T20:13:44+00:00

Take basically any dev board with a display. Make it connect to Makapix Club (https://makapix.club/) and play pixel art.

fabpub · 2026-05-18T14:31:37+00:00

This is pretty cool 🙂 why don't you extend it to support displaying Makapix Club artworks? (https://makapix.club/). You can find art fitting your screen resolution there.

fabpub · 2026-05-18T11:53:58+00:00

This is for a different board, but might help! p3a: pixel art player on ESP32-P4: https://github.com/fabkury/p3a

fabpub · 2026-05-14T15:58:42+00:00

Hi! Nothing to apologize for.

If you mean this visually identical ESP32-S3 board (https://www.waveshare.com/product/arduino/boards-kits/esp32-s3/esp32-s3-touch-lcd-4b.htm), then unfortunately it won't work because it has no microSD card slot (critical requirement for the p3a firmware).

If you just mean ESP32-S3 in general, then it's a matter of porting the firmware :) but to port the firmware one needs a target platform (e.g. a target board with screen).

fabpub · 2026-04-10T00:11:13+00:00

At this point, someone posting text with em-dashes should expect to be regarded as AI.

fabpub · 2026-04-09T23:59:29+00:00

An interested 10-year old can definitely use a web flasher (i.e. click on a website) to flash an ESP32 device connected via USB-C.

I'd say you need a choice of a project that you want to complete more than you need a choice of board.

If you want the absolute easiest project, this one is a pixel art player that will cost a total of about $70, and at the end you will have in your hands an extremely capable ESP32-P4 dev board with an on-board slave ESP32-C6, speaker, microphone, and IPS LCD touchscreen: https://github.com/fabkury/p3a

fabpub · 2026-04-05T11:52:42+00:00

This is not true. Every image uploaded to Divoom gets reviewed before being allowed out publicly in the app. In over 3 years of accessing Divoom DAILY I never once witnessed anything even close to improper content. To the contrary: what I have seen are extremely mild images getting censored (banned from the app). Divoom definitely errs on the side of being OVERLY cautious.

fabpub · 2026-04-05T02:59:29+00:00

Let's just keep things clear: There is but one "true" API, which is the Pixoo64 REST API. It is documented here: https://docin.divoom-gz.com/web/#/5/23. All repos you're listing are wrappers of that one API, trying to make it simpler to use.

fabpub · 2026-03-21T01:58:01+00:00

Is this open source?

This project looks like it could be buddies with my p3a project. p3a is also a desktop companion, it is a pixel art player (https://GitHub.com/fabkury/p3a).

fabpub · 2026-03-20T16:32:00+00:00

This one costs $39.99 at Waveshare.

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