LilyGo T-Display K230 is a $99 RISC-V dev kit that looks like a phone

The LilyGo T-Display K230 is a pocket-sized device with a 4.1 inch touchscreen AMOLED display, a camera, and support for WiFi and LoRa wireless communications. But it’s not a phone.

Instead, LilyGo sells this little device as a $99 dev kit (currently out of stock) that combines a Kendryte K230 dual-core RISC-V processor with a screen, memory, camera, and I/O.

As a phone, the T-Display K230 […]

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Some new parts arrived, probably hard to see in the picture, but I got a 5v to 3v level shifter for the #sparkfun #qwiic connector, a few qwiic connector cables (various types, but mostly qwiic to grove. or qwiic to dupont). This was all so the person sensor and the #M5Stack stuff could place nice together. I also picked up a M5Stack Univ V M12 #camera w/fish eye lens, a couple #Lilygo T-OI Plus boards (#ESP32 C3), a Lillygo T-Display S3 board.

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Just got the #lilygo #tdisplay board (#ESP32 with a built in display) and the #recommended video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8254--ibmM (by a cool maker and youtuber called Volos Projects) really helped me through installing the required libraries and tools. I tried playing the #spaceinvaders clone this tutorial shows how to install, but I like this guy's #Tetris better: https://github.com/VolosR/TTGOTetris
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ESP32 Internet Radio is no Game

More than once, we've looked at a cool board like the TTGO T-Display and thought, "What can we build with this?" If you are [Volos Projects], the answer is a tiny Internet radio. He's done a lot of other projects with the board including some games and a weather station. You can see the project in the video below.

Of course, the core Internet streaming code would be useful with any ESP32, but the display makes for a good-looking unit. The code is available on GitHub.

With judicious use of network and audio libraries, the player only takes a few hundred lines of code. Pretty impressive considering it even shows a visualization on the tiny display screen.

What we'd really like to see is a nice case, power supply, and speaker option to make a tiny and portable unit. With a 3D printer, it is easy to make very professional-looking projects, as we often see. On the other hand, it does look better than the breadboard version you can see towards the end of the video. It is, though, a neatly done breadboard.

If you want a larger screen, you might enjoy the ESP32 internet radio we looked at before. Probably our favorite case for an Internet radio was this globe.

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