Watch this space!
The Pocket Note Project is currently in development. Once it’s complete, you’lll be able to interact with it via this page!
FAQ:
What is the Pocket Note Project?
Made out of a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 and a small Waveshare e-Paper display(the remnants of my pwnagotchi 👀), the Pocket Note will be designed to display anonymous messages fetched from online. You will be able to submit messages to my Pocket Note via this page when it’s complete!That’s it??
For now, yes. But I hope to expand on this project in the future, allowing visitors to submit more than just text! Ideas I’m floating are Spotify codes, black and white images, and maybe even simple animations. But this is all just ideas and we haven’t got to that yet.Why are you making this?
Well mainly because it’s fun :D and I get to learn some stuff about Python and Cloudflare Workers and…well you get the ideaHow’s it gonna work?
While still subject to change, the current plan is:- A form is deployed to this website for users to submit their text.
- That form gets handled by a Cloudflare Worker and the input is saved to Cloudflare KV Storage, along with an MD5 hash result as a submission ID
- This webpage fetches and displays the stored input text.
- My Pocket Note device, when connected to the internet, will check it’s currently displayed submission ID against the one on the website.
- If the website has a different submission ID, the Pocket Note will fetch and display the new text, and update its submission ID.
You might now be asking, why the MD5 hash? Is that really necessary? No it’s not! :D It’s just for scalability for future updates. If in future, we add larger payloads such as images, it’d be more effecient to simply compare the submission ID rather than to download the entire payload.