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Guy built an e-ink subway display so he didn’t have to keep unlocking his phone

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 23, 2026
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Daniel Pyrathon lives near three New York City subway lines and got sick of unlocking his phone every time he wanted to check the next train. So he did the obvious (to a tinkerer) thing: he built a wall-mounted e-ink display that shows live departure times for his nearest stops, he wrote on X.

The hardware is a Waveshare e-ink …

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