$2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer

https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/09/18/2-weact-display-fs-adds-a-0-96-inch-usb-information-display-to-your-computer/

48•smartmic•1h ago

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downrightmike•53m ago

dead link

inChargeOfIT•50m ago

works for me

VladVladikoff•48m ago

Would be cool if I could reprogram it for some other output, because I don’t really see the need for this except for maybe on a raspberry pi “server”.

squigz•44m ago

You can? As linked in the article, it's open source and supports custom themes/UIs

https://github.com/WeActStudio/WeActStudio.SystemMonitor

gregsadetsky•43m ago

This display is definitely programmable to show any output you'd want. A similar display is the Turing Smart Screen (linked in the article) which is a small image-over-usb display.

((I really wanted the latter display to work on my Mac, but there's unfortunately some OS-level USB buffering (I think) that ends up creating a corrupted image - https://github.com/mathoudebine/turing-smart-screen-python/i... ))

haunter•39m ago

Aand it's gone https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009941797169.html

grizzles•14m ago

Seems perfect for a YubiKey type of device. Know where your authenticating to.

derefr•7m ago

Crypto hardware wallets have had little screens on them for ages now, for this same reason. Rather than trusting the app to tell you the truth about the tx it's presenting your key to sign, your key shows you the tx hash / amount to be transferred / etc, and asks you to make sure the details match before approving.

ahmedfromtunis•14m ago

For some reason, nothing says "future" to me more than having tiny screens embedded where they're not absolutely needed.

When I grew up in the 90s and 00s, screens were definitely the most expensive part of any system they belonged to. And any gadget that came with its own screen attached to it was regarded as a delicacy only for the elite.

Living long enough to see "disposable" screens cheaper than literal candy getting attached everywhere makes me happy.

Can't wait to see Gemini-2.5 Pro-level LLMs embedded inside single post-it notes and thrown away like it's no big deal.

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