HPR4624: Cheap Yellow Display Project Part 7: GUI Trying a Simple Hello World

HPR4624: Cheap Yellow Display Project Part 7: GUI Trying a Simple Hello World

From Hacker Public Radio by Hacker Public Radio

April 23, 2026

About this episode

In this episode, Trey returns to the Cheap Yellow Display Project series, focusing on the basics of creating a simple GUI with the ESP32.

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Hello, again. This is Trey. Please note: I did the work described in this episode, and wrote the script more than 6 months prior to this recording. But then life got in the way and I didn't get it recorded, and I didn't even look at the project until recently. But, that dear friends is a story for another episode. In literature, we call that "foretelling". Right now, however, it is time to record and publish this episode. Welcome to part 7 in my Cheap Yellow Display (CYD) Project series. If you are still listening to me ramble about this project, thank you. If you have lost track of it over the months of silence from me, you are not alone. Frankly, I have lost track of it, too. If you wish to catch up on earlier episodes, you can find them on my HPR profile page https://www.hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents/0394.html Today I am not going to blather on about all the things we have done so far, and the current state of the project. No, today we are getting back to basics, beginning with the Random Nerds Tutorial "Introducing the ESP32 Cheap Yellow Display" (…

People in this episode

Host: Trey

Topics covered

  • Cheap Yellow Display
  • ESP32
  • GUI
  • Hello World
  • technology
  • project

Keywords

  • Cheap Yellow Display
  • ESP32
  • GUI
  • Hello World
  • Random Nerds
  • Hacker Public Radio

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Random Nerds, Hacker Public Radio

Books & works: Cheap Yellow Display Project, Introducing the ESP32 Cheap Yellow Display, HPR4532

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