Bitcoin Price Ticker – Hackaday

Are you a Bitcoin miner or trader, butfind yourself lacking the compulsive need to checkexchange rates like thedrug-fuelled daytraders of Wall Street? Fear not you too canadorn your home or office with aBitcoin Price Ticker! The post is in Italian but you can read a translated version here.

Its a straightforward enough build an Arduinocompatible board with an onboard ESP8266 is hooked up with an HD44780-compatible LCD.Its then a simple matter of scraping the Bitcoin price from the web anddisplaying it on the LCD. Its a combination of all the maker staples, tied together with some off-the-shelf libraries its quick, and it works.

What makes the build extra nice is the use of custom characters on the LCD. The HD44780 is a character based display, and this project appears to use a screen with twolines of sixteencharacters each. However, a custom character set has beenimplemented in the display which uses several characters on the screen to createa single number. Its a great wayto make the display more legible from a distance, as the numbers are much larger, and the Bitcoin logo has been faithfully recreated as well. Its small touches like this that can really set a project apart.Wed love to see this expanded to display other financial market information and finished off in a nice case.

If youre wondering what you can actuallydo with Bitcoin, check out the exploits of this robotic darknet shopper.Oh, and Microsoft will take them, too.

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Bitcoin Price Ticker - Hackaday