This would be really cool to have running embedded in a digital photo frame or wall painting.
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/19/e-paper-news-feed-illustrate...
In all seriousness I can give a brief overview:
- I'll probably offload the image generation to the 5 year old intel nuc I already have as a home automation server, comfyUI in CPU mode takes 20-30 mins for a generation. Ideally it's all self contained on the Pi but that might be beyond me, skill wise.
- prompts are composed by taking time of day, season, special occasions (birthdays, xmas etc); adding random subjects from a long manually curated list; then asking gpt4 to creatively remix the prompt for variety
- i have an inky impression 7.3 inch 7 color eink display and a raspberry zero stuck onto it. Right now it'll simply download new images from the NUC every once in a while
- i like wood and i dislike the jagged 3d printer aesthetic so I'll create a frame from laser cut plywood by designing some stackable svg shapes in inkscape and sending those to a laser cutter
It works right now, functionally.
Considering that I'm painstakingly writing this on a phone with a sleeping 3 week old baby on my chest it'll be while before i have the energy to make it look like something you'd hang on your wall
That is big though
And now we're going to put a screen on the wall that we don't even look at 99% of the time?
I think it might be friendlier in some aspects than fetching an image from a server running the big the models.
And you don't have to worry about service disruptions or api keys
An e-ink display doing it should only use energy when refreshes. And you could minimize refreshes to once a day, week, etc
Less friendly than a photo of course.