Tyese are $20 "GeekMagic" smart clocks
I have it loaded up with a simple gif of a more complicated blender hive logo anination i paid for few years ago (its on nftshowroom - artificialbean helped me) and i just uploaded it to a very simple 192.168 etc etc type ip address you simply connect to after you fiest start it up and connect to its wifi it shows on a screen and from there you go to its ip adddress in a browser to configure Its internal wifi what wifi network ssid and password to use! I
Then you have rhis beautiful little wifi and bluetooth enabled smart clock which some have a $1 touch sensor installed on the board that makes the case one big button so i can tap double tap and hold to go through a simple menu for weather, picture/gifs (80x80pixels but decent full RGB color PERFECT for pixel art but can show animations as you can see and mp4s) and i could even install a small speaker and reprogram it etc. But showing weather or btc price is nice
that you can get on aliexpress or amazon etc (aliexpress is better or was, even with tarrifs can still be cheaper than amazon bit now amwzon has cheaper which is bullshit since amazon gets the stuff overseas from china too, did trump give them an exemption or is there a deal where amazon is paying the tarrifs? and trump doesnt fine them for whatever problem amazon im sure is guilty of ? Lol )
I just love these esp32 devices with bluetooth and wifi and i have a few more that are heltecv3 with 1miles+ radio antenaes for meshtastic LORA long range radio text messaging withiut ANY cell towers all peer to peer and we should all have them and start using meshtastic for hive. Each one of these on meshtastic has a private key
Each esp32 can havd a private key and a wallet and its gor a decent little cpu and limited ram and can be expanded...some are 200 ro 300 called bitaxe 1TH bitcoin miners...i also have one thats just a 50-70KH btc SOLO lottery miner.
Like 1 in 200 billion chance to win 6 btc er lole 4 after pool tax lol but its just a great lottle 20 dollar co versaion starter or pay 7 for a esp32 t display blank and load nerdminer free firmware on it and also have btc solo miner
Hive should do something like this but with those $250 jetson nvidia ai mini pcs or the BEEQ on amazon ...you run ai LLMs on it and if we all had them we could have some really cool server compute power to do useful work loads hive may need to do one day for whatever reason.
I just love these things. Without a screen they can be (pre tarrifs )5 bucks and even with tarrifs maybe only a few bucks more. The ones with displays were 7 and 17 for a heltec meshtastic one that u can use for emergency texting. Maybe 20 for one with a nice big touch screen and battery for use doing whatwvwr you want. Ai tools can hekp you code for the arduinoIDE program you can use while plugged in usbc to your computer OR better uet use a usb otg or usbc to usbc and connect the esp32 micro computer to your phone and download the arduinoIDE app or web app environment i forget the name but as google gemini...theres an EASY way to reprogram these esp32s and they have 2 buttons on them to navigate whatever menu yiu want to create. And use ai to program the code and copy paste it OR download ollama run gemini and give it access to serial ports and ask the ai to provram this tiny esp32 for you to show hive posts and curate with a click hah could be a hive miner
Imagine making one of these esp32s into a hive gigapet tamagochi for a splinterlands card. Load it up and it shows a splinterlands character and these esp32 have wifi and can have a battery so it can get updates over a network and show the health of an in game character like a dreamcast mvu etc
So many cool things to do with an esp32