If you are a Potterhead, chances are you already know about the various Harry Potter-themed products launched in the recent past. For starters, we saw author JK Rowling launch the Harry Potter at Home hub to offer free entertainment for kids amidst lockdowns last year. OnePlus also jumped on the bandwagon with the launch of its OnePlus Watch Harry Potter Limited Edition recently. Now, an electronics enthusiast has developed a replica of the Daily Prophet newspaper from the Harry Potter films using an e-paper display IRL.
However, the developer somewhat got rid of this issue with the use of a custom dithering library, and well, it works well. Along with that, Leopoldo also integrated a Teensy microcontroller and a hidden front-facing camera along with an ESP32 microcontroller for face detection into the picture frame. The moving images are loaded from an external SD card and look very similar to the newspaper print surrounding the e-ink display.
