What is that raspberry pi doing right now? beats me!? Let's put a little status display on it. In a radio context, this could be APRS stations, ax.25 traffic, or possibly display apps like wsjtx or js8call. With a small tft screen and a bluetooth keyboard, you can build the ultimate light-weight, low-power summits-on-the-air digital rig. 1.3" tft screen SPI ST7789, PiZero form-factor ($15) https://www.adafruit.com/product/4484 (DigiPi ready) 2.8" capacitive touch screen SPI ILI9341, Pi4/5 form-factor ($44) https://www.adafruit.com/product/2423 DigiPi ready with newer version of direwatch.py, digibanner.py at http://github.com/craigerl/direwatch 4" square 720x720 60fps gpio monitor ($67) https://www.adafruit.com/product/4498 Put "dtoverlay=vc4-kms-dpi-hyperpixel4sq" in /boot/config.txt This is not a DigiPi display but an actual X11/wayland monitor Learn Python drawing on ST7789/ILI9341 displays: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-mini-pitft-135x240-color-tft-add-on-for-raspberry-pi This video is not sponsored by adafruit, but I like to support their open source work by giving them sales referrals. Most of this stuff is available on Amazon and other grey-market versions are available world-wide.
