I own a TRMNL (an 800×480 e-ink screen that shows one "recipe" at a time: calendar, weather, transit, quotes, stats…). The community has published over 1,100 of these recipes, but finding good ones was hard, so I built an unofficial site to explore them.

What you can do there, even without owning one:

• browse a gallery of real e-ink screenshots, to see what a 1-bit dashboard actually looks like

• search by need ("bus times", "plants", "habit tracker"…)

• read a small e-ink news feed: DIY panels, dashboard hacks, other e-ink displays

Most of dashboards published on TRMNL are hosted on github and are forkable to be used on any e-ink.

No ads, no cookies, no account needed. I'm not affiliated with TRMNL, just a user.

https://nbbou81000.github.io/trmnl-leaderboard/?via=eink

First capture : a plugin to display plane flying nearby my home.

Second capture : a dashboard to see how my public recipes perform on TRMNL.

Curious what this sub thinks makes a good e-ink layout. Feedback welcome!

Hey everyone!

A new section just went live on the TRMNL Creator Leaderboard, and this one is for everyone building recipes: Recipes in the making.

I kept seeing great screenshots of unfinished/projected recipes on Reddit and here, and a day later they're buried. Now they have a home.

Here's how it works:

Sign in with Discord (no new account needed) and share your project: a screenshot, a short description, and where you're at (idea, building, testing, or submitted to TRMNL).

Post progress updates with new screenshots as you go. Only you can update your own project.

Anyone can read along, and people can leave comments or ask you questions right on your project.

When your recipe finally goes live, the site spots it and moves it to a "Just shipped" spot with an install button.

It's a nice way to get early feedback, find testers, or just show off what you're working on.

👉 https://nbbou81000.github.io/trmnl-leaderboard/?lang=en#in-the-making

It's brand new, so if something feels off or you'd like to see something added, let me know in the comments!

Major update to the showcase 🎉

A gallery view. Every public recipe now appears with its actual preview, description, and creator. Features include category filtering, search, sorting by installs or trending status, and a "24 hours / 7 days / 30 days" selector at the top that turns it into a "what's new" feed. Useful even if you've never published anything yourself.

A big shout-out to @hossaink while I'm at it 👋 He shared his experimental plugin explorer the other day—which predates my site—and I borrowed heavily from it for this update: the featured preview, the categories, and the very idea of browsing recipes visually rather than reading a list. His site is now linked in my footer. ExcuseMi's "Trending Recipes" plugin is there too, since that’s what originally inspired this project.

Shareable thumbnails. Open a recipe and click "Share": the site generates a 1200 × 630 image featuring the preview, description, creator's name, and install count. One click to download or share it. Perfect for showing off your recipe.

A "TRMNL News" tab. Live service status, latest announcements, blog posts, and firmware version—all in one place.

The site can also be installed as an app: add it to your home screen, and it opens in full-screen mode, even offline.

https://nbbou81000.github.io/trmnl-leaderboard/?lang=en

As always, let me know what's missing or what isn't working right. Most of this update comes from your suggestions 🙏

https://trmnl.com/recipes/476387

https://github.com/nbbou81000/trmnl-recipes

https://trmnl.com/recipes/469103

https://github.com/nbbou81000/trmnl-recipes

J'ai aussi construit un petit site qui affiche tous les dessins de brevets du plugin, avec des options de recherche : https://nbbou81000.github.io/trmnl-patents/

Just finished a new one: Top Wikipedia.

It shows yesterday's most-viewed Wikipedia articles, which turns out to be a weirdly good summary of what the world was paying attention to. Today it's a tennis player sitting right above the September 11 attacks.

Two display modes you can switch between in the settings:

• Thumbnail — dithered image of the #1 article next to the ranking, plus a footer with total views and the day's biggest riser

• Trends — drops the image to fit more articles, each with its change vs the previous day and a 7-day bar sparkline

Pick your edition (EN / FR / DE / ES) and every label follows the language, not just the article titles. It fills out properly on TRMNL X too, more rows in landscape and more again in portrait.

Data comes from the official Wikimedia Pageviews API, no key, no scraping. GitHub Actions regenerates everything once a day.

Repo: https://github.com/nbbou81000/trmnl-wiki-pageviews

All my other recipes: https://github.com/nbbou81000/trmnl-recipes

Je viens de publier un plugin sur lequel j'ai travaillé : Dessins de brevets.

L'idée m'est venue après avoir découvert « Weird Patents » de y2ee201 sur mon appareil, et j'ai voulu appliquer le même concept aux machines de mon enfance. On y retrouve donc des consoles de jeux, des téléphones à clapet, des ordinateurs portables, des caméscopes et des liseuses, tels que leurs concepteurs les ont déposés à l'origine. Des dessins au trait sur fond blanc, format idéal pour l'encre électronique.

Deux points importants à souligner :

Ce sont des images, pas du code HTML. Le titre, le titulaire et l'année sont intégrés au PNG. Pas de restriction de format, pas d'ajustement automatique, pas de réorganisation dynamique : j'ai fait ce choix pour que le dessin bénéficie de la résolution maximale de la plaque, au lieu d'être compressé dans une balise img à côté de texte HTML.

Certains titres seront tronqués, quoi qu'il arrive. Le moteur de rendu les ajuste et les redimensionne automatiquement, mais une partie des titres sources proviennent directement de l'index des brevets (par exemple : « Image générée par ordinateur pour un écran d'affichage… »). Je ne peux pas récupérer ce qui est manquant. C'est embêtant, mais l'important, c'est le dessin.

Environ 3 500 plaques actuellement, et ce nombre augmente chaque jour à mesure que le collectionneur travaille sur sa liste de termes. Vos commentaires sont les bienvenus, surtout concernant le rendu en niveaux de gris : j'ai volontairement évité le tramage car le Floyd-Steinberg détériore les traits fins, mais j'aimerais savoir ce que cela donne sur d'autres appareils. Mes autres recettes : https://github.com/nbbou81000/trmnl-recipes

Dépôt : https://github.com/nbbou81000/trmnl-patents

Galerie de tout ce qui a été généré jusqu’à présent : https://nbbou81000.github.io/trmnl-patents/

Geek Almanac offers two modes. "Ephemeris" displays a tech event that occurred on the current date, with the option to show how old you were at the time. "Encyclopedia" displays a random article from a collection of over 12,000 tech terms, summarized from Wikipedia by an LLM in both French and English. Each article includes an illustration and a QR code linking to the source.

https://trmnl.com/recipes/446649

Plugin : https://trmnl.com/recipes/387251?ref=search

While trying to create a plugin for the French equivalent of the AMBER Alert system, I realized it wasn't possible for my country, so I decided to build it for the United States instead, as the AMBER system allows for this via an API. It will soon be submitted for review.

New plugin waiting for review : GitHub Status.

shows the live operational state of all 11 GitHub services (Git, API, Actions, Packages, Pages, Copilot, Codespaces and more), with a 7 or 30 day incident history per service. Switch to incident mode for a detailed feed of every ongoing incident, with its current stage and latest update. Data comes straight from GitHub's official status API - no account, no API key. Available in English and French. For the incidents page, i dont know how it'll work because exceptionaly there is no incident today on github ^^

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**Almanach Geek** — Plugin TRMNL (ou n'importe quel device e-ink) en cours de développement, nous recherchons des retours !

Deux modes en un seul plugin :

- 🗓️ **Éphéméride** — Histoire quotidienne de la tech/geek (« Ce jour-là dans l’histoire de la tech »), bilingue EN/FR, plusieurs événements par jour en rotation

- 📚 **Encyclopédie** — Article approfondi aléatoire sur un terme technique (langages de programmation, matériel, internet, jeux vidéo, espace, sécurité…), un nouvel article à chaque mise à jour

Les deux modes incluent un QR code renvoyant à la source Wikipédia et s’adaptent automatiquement à OG/X avec le même modèle.

*Le plus intéressant :* Conçu pour être gratuit, quel que soit son succès,* Tout est pré-généré (GitHub Actions + Mistral/Gemini gratuit) en JSON statique servi par GitHub Pages. TRMNL se contente donc d'interroger des fichiers plats. Aucun serveur, aucun appel d'API à l'exécution, aucune facture qui évolue avec le nombre d'installations.

Actuellement, 291 jours sur 366 sont disponibles en contenu éphémère (les jours sans contenu éphémère, un article d'encyclopédie aléatoire est affiché) et plus de 6000 articles d'encyclopédie (et ce nombre continue d'augmenter).

⚠️ **Les captures d'écran ci-dessous sont des maquettes générées par Claude aux résolutions OG/X réelles de TRMNL pour prévisualiser l'interface — il ne s'agit pas encore de rendus sur l'appareil.** Je ne l'ai pas encore installé sur TRMNL pour des tests en conditions réelles.

Pensez-vous que cela pourrait intéresser certains d'entre vous ? Vos retours sont les bienvenus avant que je ne poursuive.

**Geek Almanac — WIP TRMNL plugin, looking for feedback**

Two modes in one plugin:

- 🗓️ **Ephemeride** — daily tech/geek history ("this day in tech history"), bilingual EN/FR, rotates through multiple events per day

- 📚 **Encyclopedia** — random deep-dive article on a tech term (programming languages, hardware, internet, gaming, space, security...), new one every refresh

Both modes include a QR code back to the Wikipedia source, and auto-scale across OG/X with the same template.

**The fun part:** it's built to cost **$0/month no matter how popular it gets** — everything's pre-generated (GitHub Actions + free-tier Mistral/Gemini) into static JSON served by GitHub Pages, so TRMNL just polls flat files. No server, no runtime API calls, no bill that scales with installs.

Currently sitting at 291/366 days of ephemeride content (for days without ephemeride, it will show one random encyclopedia article) and 3000+ encyclopedia articles (still growing).

⚠️ **The screenshots below are mockups I had Claude render at TRMNL's real OG/X resolutions to preview the layout — not actual on-device renders yet.** Haven't installed it on TRMNL itself for real-world testing.

Would this be something people here would actually want to use? Open to feedback before I go further.

Hey r/eink,

I made a "recipe" (community plugin) for the TRMNL e-ink display called Souvenir Map. Every 30 minutes it picks a random city (from a ~34,000-city dataset) and renders a fresh street map on the fly — real roads, water, parks, railways, a compass rose and scale bar, all drawn as SVG straight from OpenStreetMap/Overpass data. No stock images, every map is generated live.

A few details that might interest e-ink folks specifically:

Everything is vector-rendered SVG, so lines stay crisp at e-ink resolution instead of getting muddy like a rasterized photo would.

Both landscape and portrait variants are generated from the same data, so it adapts to different frame orientations.

The whole pipeline (Node.js script → GitHub Actions → GitHub Pages → the display) runs for free, no server needed on my end.

It's built for TRMNL specifically, but the rendering approach (OSM data → clean SVG for e-ink) could be useful as inspiration if you're doing anything similar on another frame.

TRMNL recipe : https://trmnl.com/recipes/387251

GitHub: https://github.com/nbbou81000/trmnl-carte-souvenir

Little side-project webpage in development : https://nbbou81000.github.io/trmnl-carte-souvenir/atlas.html

Happy to answer questions about the rendering pipeline or the OSM/Overpass side of things.

I also made 2 others recipes for TRMNL, you can have a look on the TRMNL recipe link.

Have a good day !

Souvenir Map

ATRMNLplugin that draws a random corner of the world on your e-ink screen — a minimalist map poster, automatically regenerated, revealing a new city each time.

🌍Explore the Atlas— an interactive 3D globe and a 2D map of all the cities drawn by the plugin, with detailed travel statistics.

https://trmnl.com/recipes/387251

GitHub Repository

How it Works

Every 30 minutes, a populated place is randomly selected on Earth. Its road network, rivers, railways, and parks are extracted from OpenStreetMap and rendered as a clean line map, framed like a poster: a double border, a compass rose, a scale, and a discreet marker at the exact coordinates of the drawing.

The drawing doesn’t stop at the frame. It extends and fades gently towards the edges of the map, giving the impression of a fragment of a much larger world rather than a truncated rectangle. Two orientations are generated from the same data — landscape and portrait — and the plugin's markup chooses the one that matches how your device is currently mounted.

🎬 Ciné Poster — random movie poster plugin for TRMNL

Pulls a random film poster from TMDB every refresh. You can filter by genre(s) and decade(s) (multi-select), toggle FR/EN, and optionally show a full synopsis, director, top cast, and a QR code linking to the movie's TMDB page.

Built on the usual polling + GitHub Pages pipeline, pool refreshes daily.

⚠️ Not submitted as a Recipe yet — still a private plugin, happy to get feedback before I push it for review!