MONITOR-SIDE DESK PET / ESP32 APPLICATION
Monitor Buddy
A tiny ESP32-C6 touchscreen friend for the side of your monitor: animated face, clock, weather, moon phase, stocks and GitHub stats. No soldering.
About this project
About this project
An animated face on a 1.47-inch screen, clipped to the side of a monitor by a 3D-printed holder: it blinks, glances about, and rolls its eyes when the board is tilted, thanks to an on-board QMI8658 motion sensor. Swiping past the face reaches a clock, Open-Meteo weather, moon phase, a stock ticker and GitHub numbers; the free Finnhub key only covers US symbols. Five themes, and a setting flips screen, touch and eye movement for a right-side mount. Assembly needs no soldering, and only the touchscreen version of the board fits the holder. Flashing runs from Chrome or Edge over Web Serial; building from source needs pioarduino, since the chip is too new for the stock ESP32 tooling.
From the README
From the README
- Sensor
- driven by the on-board QMI8658 motion sensor
- Limit
- the free Finnhub tier is US only
- Build
- a community fork of the standard ESP32 tooling
- Assembly
- no breadboard, and no wiring required
- Limit
- Non-touchscreen versions are smaller and will not fit the holder
Hardware
Native board: Waveshare ESP32-C6-Touch-LCD-1.47
Boards: ESP32-C6
Supported hardware: ESP32-C6. Confirm the exact board revision and pin map in the upstream repository.
What the source supports
Upstream evidence: Reviewed from public README media at commit d857d87e9d9a under MIT. Firmware was not executed.
Media credit & rights
Upstream project media · rights remain with its owner · Credit: IdefixRC
Screenshots decoded from the upstream README at a pinned commit. Repository code and firmware were not executed; the license texts are included in the preview package.
View original source ↗ Copyright & removal · Reviewed
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