Fascinated by artwork generated by deep studying methods akin to DALL-E and Steady Diffusion? Then maybe a wall set up like this phenomenal e-paper Triptych created by [Zach Archer] is in your future.
The three interlocking frames had been printed out of “Walnut Wooden” HTPLA from ProtoPasta, and maintain a pair of 5.79 inch pink/black/white shows together with a single 7.3 inch pink/yellow/black/white panel from Waveshare. There are e-paper panels on the market with extra colours out there for those who wished to go that route, however judging by the putting pictures [Zach] has posted, the comparatively restricted colour palettes out there on these shows doesn’t appear to be a hindrance.
To create the photographs themselves, [Zach] wrote a script that might generate infinite custom-made portraits utilizing Steady Diffusion v1.4, after which manually chosen the perfect to get copied over to a 32 GB micro SD card. The aspect pictures had been generated on the dreamstudio.ai web site, and in addition dumped on the cardboard.
Each 12 hours a TinyPico ESP32 growth board within the body picks some pictures from the cardboard, applies the required dithering and colour changes to make them look good on the e-paper, after which updates the shows.
With the onboard 350 mAh battery, [Zach] says the body will run for about 16 days. That’s fairly spectacular given the comparatively low capability, so we think about you possibly can actually get some critical runtime from a pair of 18650s. Prior to now we’ve even seen e-paper wall shows use photo voltaic panels to assist stretch out their battery life, although we will see how tacking on some photovoltaic cells may affect the rigorously thought of aesthetics of this piece.
It’s a phenomenal undertaking, however in line with [Zach], he’s beginning to have some second ideas in regards to the pictures he’s exhibiting on it. Like many people, he’s questioning in regards to the implications of content material generated by AI, particularly the way it can devalue the work of human artists. Fortunately loading the show up with new pictures is only a matter of popping in a brand new SD card, so we think about the {hardware} itself will nonetheless be put to make use of even when the content material itself is swapped out.