Thank you! I will try.

Beautiful,but kind of expensive for real hobby if you plan to use more than one and not just play with them.

Thank you my friend, I hope you are right :)

Tnx Ed

Yes C6 is very interesting. Thank you for you comment.

competition is good, then both of them will give more when designing new boards :) Thank you :)

Hahah, thank you 😀

You can find it on temu shop. Thank you.

Hahaha, thanj you, yep my main transportation for last three years.

@@VolosProjects A bicycle has been my main transportation for over half my adult life and I'm in my 50s. I don't have a car right now in fact and I work 20 km away from home. Cheers from Boulder, Colorado, USA which is one of two places in America which claims to be where mountain biking was invented. 🚵

Wow, that is alot for daily commute.

@@VolosProjects A bus with a bike rack cuts the morning ride to

Yes I think Lilygo are heroically swallowing that cost for our benefit. I would bet that the shell costs are greater than the board costs - in terms of manufacturing.

Since Lilygo provide the schematics and CAD models (eventually...), the boards make excellent reference designs for your own FAB - or at least a great starting point IMHO.

@@nikthefix8918 I think that's my broader point. They are good for VERY short run quantities (eg. hobby, or prototype as you imply), but priced to high to use at scale. Still, they are a very nice package. But sometimes I think that capitalism trips over it's own feet. If priced more aggressively, these could be the go-to for both hobbyists and short-run OEM.

@@SeanLumly Oh I see, but I wasn't suggesting using the actual liligo product in your designs but rather using the tried and tested design files, sourcing your own components, having your own pcbs made, populating them and expanding on the design to meet your OEM needs. That could work out very cheap in quantity. If an existing board is well documented then it can teach you how to make your own with add-ons and subtractions according to your needs. In that sense, a single Lilygo or M5stack board is a fantastic resource and a great test bed as you develop your own custom hardware.

@@nikthefix8918 Yes, that is how I interpreted your post. Useful for reference design prior to actual production. I was implying same with my original post, using hobbyist as a stand-in for "make one or two things". But the same applies in the process of design.

@@SeanLumly Yes good point. Dev boards can become very expensive preliminary 'tools'

I will, very soon.

@@VolosProjects Dear Volos, I think that your intention to make SquareLine Studio lessons is really great. this series of videos will have much more interest if you do not "stick" on using studio just for T-Display S3, but to explain general aproaches, particular board independent. Or at least make your point on this particular board, but showing what happens in case of other TFT drivers use.

You could use the T-dongle to transmit ESP-NOW packets to slave ESP32 devices. The T-dongle could accept USB-Serial-Virtual-Com messages from an agent resident on the computer - like all those fancy System Monitor Displays do, or you could write an agent which uses Custom USB-HID to forward host system messages to the T-Dongle at a specific vid / pid and then re-forward to your slave devices - like a gateway. There's a fantastic USB-HID library for Windows by Signal 11. It also works with MAC and Linux but I've only used it on Windows. You'll find it as 'hidapi' - originally written by but perhaps not maintained by Alan Ott.

@@nikthefix8918 I thought of something similar about having a local script to fetch data and write to a local file, then a second script to look at the file and serve it via Serial to a directly connected device (probably gonna test this with a spare T-Display S3 when I've time). I asked ChatGPT for an example of the latter; a bit lazy I know. Then I'll "just" have to figure out how to receive the data and put it into some presentation logic :) import pandas as pd import serial import time # Read data from file def read_data_from_file(filename): df = pd.read_csv(filename) data = df.to_dict(orient='records') return data # Serve data via serial def serve_data_serial(data): ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyUSB0', 9600) ser.write(bytes(str(data), 'utf-8')) ser.close() if __name__ == "__main__": while True: data = read_data_from_file('sanitized_data.csv') serve_data_serial(data) time.sleep(600) # Serve data every 10 minutes

@@nikthefix8918 I came to a similar conclusion and replied separately with a code example to read data from a file and serve via Serial but it looks like the spam filter thought it was malicious 😅

@@JanDahl I also had to edit and resubmit my response 3 times to satisfy 'the algorithm'.

@@nikthefix8918 I look forward to 5 years from now, a KZfaq algorithm update flagging us both for these comments and retroactively putting "strikes" on our accounts.

Maybe a T-Bike or a T-Bar? The trick is accomodating the variety of bar tube sizes, but I would buy one or more instantly!

I did not undertand?

@@VolosProjects you have always supplied source code. Now you can't so we can't tinker and learn. Sad that you switched to SquareLine. No more source code sharing. It really lowers the usefulness of your channel. Sad...

@@michealmorrow1481 I added , internet clock code so yo can check it.

I am using free personal licence of sqareline studio. If you dont need more than 150 widgets, personal licence is enougth.

@@VolosProjects Yes but respectfully, how do we 'play' with the code and learn like before if you are only uploading binaries?

@@peakfilm3465 i added code to git rep from description, you can check it

Hvala kolega

Tnx Edward, i still havent play with it for longer time, baterry in my main concern. We will see.