Newt Display Arduino Library
Newt is a battery-powered, always-on, wall-mountable display that can go online to retrieve weather, calendars, sports scores, to-do lists, quotes…really anything on the Internet! It is powered by an ESP32-S2 microcontroller that you can program with Arduino, CircuitPython, MicroPython, or ESP-IDF.
This library includes the source code used in the Newt display. You can modify this code to customize Newt.
You can read more about Newt at https://phambili.tech/newt
Planned Enhancement/Fixes/Fixes for next release
Version 1.1.0- RC1
All - you can now download version 1.1.0-RC1 for manual testing. We've added a ton of new features. I'm in the process of writing up the official documentation, but at a high level:
- New API for alerts (beta)
- New API for riddles/brainteasers
- Major change in weather API (new provider and additional weather details)
- UV
- Sunrise/sunset
- Humidity
- Feels like weather
- Updated settings options:
- 12/24 Hour clock
- Nighttime screen mode
- more Settings details
- Quote or Weather (or rotating) main screen
- Imperial or Metric units
- Hello World Arduino example that explains how do:
- Write to the screen
- Enable the touchpads
- Emit a beep from the device
You can find instructions for manual download here-> #37
Version 1.1.0+ - roadmap
- change timezone
- change location
- icon documentation
- service-side code docuumentation
License Information
This product is open source!
Please review the LICENSE.md file for license information.
Distributed as-is; no warranty is given.