I came across this idea here on Hacker News a while ago – a small weather display using an ESP32 and an e-ink screen to show a daily weather landscape. I loved it and shared the idea with a friend of mine. He went all in and rebuilt the whole thing in Rust – from the image rendering server to the embedded code on the ESP32.

It's a clean, minimal two-part project:

A Rust server fetches weather data from MET Norway and renders it as a landscape image.

An ESP32 downloads and displays the image on a 2.9" e-ink screen.

Here’s the repo: https://github.com/martinohmann/weather-landscape Would love to hear what you think!

People on github remain allergic to pictures, there's even a text description of each weather mode so that we can imagine it!