Built a Small E-Ink Tracker for Podcast Data

[SpencerWF]

Using a Raspberry Pi Zero, and E-Ink display and the OP3 API I built a small tracker that updates me every day of the downloads, and a comparison between the last 3 weeks of downloads.

I used 6 triangles to represent the last 3 weeks of downloads. The triangles are paired up where the coloured(Red or Yellow) triangle represents the total downloads of a given week, and the white triangle represents the downloads for the latest episode. The left most coloured and white triangle represents the 3 weeks ago, the middle triangles are 2 weeks ago and are used as a reference for the other triangles, they shouldn't change in size, the right most triangles represent the last 7 days. If a new episode was released this week then it will be the only week with a white triangle.

Thanks for reading!

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[Dwev]

Looks great!

What does the $ value represent? Is this V4V or ad revenue or something else?

[SpencerWF]

I also track a small Crypto investment on the same screen, not really relevant for OP3, but basically done the same way. Could definitely be used to track ad revenue or similar.

[johnspurlock-skymethod]

So cool!

Do you have it mounted on a wall or desk somewhere?

[SpencerWF]

Hey, thanks so much!

Currently it just sits on a table for me, but I'm thinking about re-writing the code with an embedded device (for lower battery draw), hooking it up to Lipo battery and mounting it somewhere.