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Yet Another E-Ink Picture Frame

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 Yet Another E-Ink Picture Frame In our family we have group on WhatsApp .   To simply share some photos and updates. What bothers me is that our Grandma does not have smartphone, computer even internet and therefore she can not access WhatsApp feed. At first I was thinking about some way how to provide convenient way to share pictures of our children with her. One of the options was to use some old tablet and run WhatsApp there, but this would require some operation to turn the tablet on during the day, maybe restarting it from time to time. It would also be quite data hungry. Then I stumbled over these new fancy 7.3" color E-Ink displays on Pimoroni . And got an idea. Print frame for it attach some single board PC to it and let it ask for update from public web server. For connection I would use LTE WiFi modem.  Important feature is that everything should be simple in way that I can finish this project . So it won't  be yet another unfinished project under my...