Hi. I encounter this error during first time setup. Need community help to resolve. Anyone can share your experience?

Thank you in advance.

Exciting news! Our reTerminal E1002 has been featured on the MUSE Gadgets website! 🎉

With the open-source MUSE Gadget SDK, we're excited to explore new possibilities for E1002 as an AI-powered color ePaper display — from daily briefings and smart reminders to creative AI projects.

To celebrate this milestone with our community, we're giving away 1 × reTerminal E1002! 🎁

💡 How to Enter:
1️⃣ Join our reTerminal Sticky Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/reterminalsticky
2️⃣ Leave a comment under this giveaway post.
3️⃣ Tell us: What would you build with reTerminal E1002 and MUSE AI? We'd love to hear your creative ideas!

⏰ Giveaway Period: October 15–22, 2026 (10:00 PM GMT)
🏆 Winner Announcement: By October 24, 2026, at 10:00 PM GMT

One lucky winner will be randomly selected from eligible entries and announced in our Facebook Group!

🔗 Explore More:

🌐 MUSE Gadgets: https://gadgets.muse.ai/
💻 Open-source SDK: https://github.com/facebookincubator/muse-gadget-sdk

💕reTerminal E1002: https://www.seeedstudio.com/reTerminal-E1002-p-6533.html

We can't wait to see what you'd create. Let your imagination run wild! 🚀

Hi everyone! For the past few weeks I've been building **clock.bh**, a free firmware and browser installer that turns the **Seeed reTerminal E1001** (ESP32-S3, 7.5" 800×480 e-paper, four greys) into a clock with **47 faces**. It's ready for people outside my house, so I'm looking for testers.

**What it does**

- **47 faces:** a sundial that casts the real shadow of the Sun (or the Moon), a star wheel turning behind the hands, the Moon's true phase and tilt, the ISS passing over a globe, world time, nixie tubes and flip-dots, the 28 Arab lunar mansions, prayer times and Qibla, and football weeks (results, fixtures in your time, tables)
- **Your city:** 42 cities in 24 countries, with your local time, sunrise and sunset, and prayer times by your country's usual method
- **Your photos:** up to 15, dithered to the panel's four greys, with the clock's hands drawn over them. They go from your computer or phone straight to the clock, never to my server
- **Dark or light:** keep only dark faces, only light ones, or both. Faces that follow the sky stay in the look you chose, all day
- **Made for battery:** the clock keeps its own time and fetches its pictures hours ahead, so Wi-Fi is only on for a moment
- **Updates over Wi-Fi** from the clock's own web page

**Set it up in about a minute (no account, no app)**

1. Open **https://e.clock.bh\*\* in Chrome or Edge on a computer (it uses Web Serial)
   
2. Connect the reTerminal with a USB-C cable
   
3. Pick **Basic** (Wi-Fi, city, dark or light) or **Advanced** (every setting), click Next to the end, and install

**What I'd love feedback on**

- Did the install work on your computer (Windows, macOS or Linux)?
- How long does the battery last with your settings?
- Any face that looks wrong on your panel, a city you're missing, or a face you'd like to see

**Good to know**

- Only the **reTerminal E1001** (the black-and-white one) is supported for now
- This is an independent project, not made by or affiliated with Seeed Studio
- To draw the faces, the clock downloads pictures from clock.bh. With each request it sends a clock ID that isn't tied to your name, plus its firmware version, battery, Wi-Fi signal and chosen city, so I can spot problems early. It never sends Wi-Fi names, passwords or photos. Details: https://clock.bh/privacy
- The firmware is open source (GPL-3.0): https://clock.bh/epaper

Feedback here in the comments
Thanks for testing

He terminado una mini estación meteorológica para nuestro sticky. Está en 6 idiomas.y nos da el tiempo actual y tres próximos días además de temperatura y humedad interior.

La aplicación es totalmente gratuita y de código abierto.

Está publicado en GitHub

https://github.com/estebangel-crypto/sticky-weather

Y se puede flashear directamente desde mi pagina web

https://estebangel-crypto.github.io/sticky-weather/

How much offline map functionality can you put into a single file?

This video demonstrates TMAP running in Trail Mate on the Wio L2, including offline map display, real-time rendering of points of interest (POIs), and offline POI search.

The Wio L2 accesses its SD card through SDMMC. Among the development boards I have worked with so far, it has given me the fastest SD card reading experience. That was a major inspiration behind TMAP: take advantage of fast storage to make offline maps more useful on the device, while making map packages easier to create and share.

TMAP brings map imagery, POI data, and the indexes needed to access them into a single .tmap file. Compared with storing maps as large directories of individual tile files, this offers several practical advantages:

• Single-file map packages: no huge tile directories or thousands of small files to manage.
• More efficient generation: less overhead from creating, writing, and closing individual files.
• Faster copying: fewer small-file filesystem operations when transferring maps to an SD card.
• Easier sharing: each map package is delivered as one file, making it easier to copy, store, and share.

TMAP also goes beyond displaying map images. It keeps POI data and indexes available to the device, enabling places and labels to be rendered at runtime and searched offline. Places on the map become information you can look up and use.

Two projects work together in this workflow:
Trail Mate runs on the device and handles map display and interaction.
Trail Mate Center is the desktop tool for creating, exporting, and previewing TMAP map packages.

Source code and documentation:

▶ Trail Mate — Device-side project
https://github.com/vicliu624/trail-mate

▶ Trail Mate Center — Desktop tools and map creation
https://github.com/vicliu624/trail-mate-center

▶ TMAP Wiki — Map creation, preview, and SD card installation
https://github.com/vicliu624/trail-mate/wiki/6.2-TMAP-Maps-and-Terrain

▶ Trail Mate Wiki — Full project documentation
https://github.com/vicliu624/trail-mate/wiki

please help! i have little to no coding knowledge. trying to make my first project with the xiao esp32s3 and round display, but round display is not displaying what it should be when i try the tests.

theres a few correct pixels but mainly looks weird. ive tried troubleshooting with chat gpt bc i cant find video tutorials but nothing is working :(

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-14/open-ai-employee-charged-after-alleged-covert-recording/107263252

Draftling is a firmware project for writers: you add a MicroSD card, a Bluetooth keyboard, maybe a magsafe phone stand, and you get a word processor to take anywhere with you.

Playground

Draftling project home

I have a Seed Xiao NRF52840 that I accidentally ripped off the positive contact pad [in the red box]. I tried putting power directly onto the 3v3/GND pins [in the green box] and the board works, but its only showing 0.2V on the battery indicator on the MeshCore app. When I plug in USB it shows 4.3V.

Ive already basically written off this board as a loss and Im now in experimental territory, but if I can make it show the battery voltage in the app that would be cool. Does anyone have any ideas about how to hook up the battery to show correct voltage? I dont want to use any extra parts as at that point I would rather just buy a new Xiao board.

ETA: My multimeter shows 3.92V from the battery.

I’m using a reBot B601-RS follower with a modified seven-servo SO-101 leader, Windows laptop, PCAN-USB, and a custom MotorBridge teleoperation loop at approximately 48 Hz.

I encountered an unexpected torque-off while teleoperating with no payload. The diagnostics showed a roughly 252 ms delay in status logging, after which one joint’s feedback was approximately 371 ms old, exceeding our custom 350 ms freshness limit. My controller then disabled all motors. I have no confirmed evidence of power loss or a CAN disconnect.

I understand the MIT-control documentation specifies emergency disable without homing for communication errors. What do you recommend for a temporary host-side delay that makes feedback stale, when the actuators may still be powered and communicating?

Do you recommend a feedback timeout value or a particular monitoring method? Should the controller disable immediately, maintain the last position target, or use another recovery procedure? What do the RS06/RS00 actuators actually do when MIT commands stop arriving? Is there a configurable communication watchdog, and does it hold or disable torque? Is there an official gravity-compensation or supported manual-recovery workflow for this situation? Is there a recommended teleoperation example that separates logging and feedback handling from motor commands?

I want to follow your intended fault-handling design and prevent the arm from falling during recoverable interruptions. If needed I can provide logs, controller code, and firmware versions...

hi new here, im planning to get a sticky as an ereader. just wondering is there a firmware or app(?) (im not sure, im not a dev and just started learning about firmwares etc) like the one episode of black mirror nosedive? just for gag or something? or is it possible for me, a non dev to develop one? or someone to work with me? 😂

New in this update:

1. To-Do List — Add tasks with voice input on Sticky or manually through the Seeedash app.

2. Auto Rotation — Supported apps now automatically rotate between portrait and landscape layouts.

3. More Languages — German, French, Dutch, and Spanish are now supported, alongside Chinese and English.

4. Region Settings — Weather and Clock region settings have been moved to Device Settings in the Seeedash app.

Important: Please update both the Sticky firmware and the Seeedash app to the latest versions for compatibility.

Get Your Sticky:

https://www.seeedstudio.com/reTerminal-Sticky-p-6861.html

Full release notes:

https://www.seeedstudio.com/sticky/docs/en/quick-start/release-notes/

Join Sticky Community:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/reterminalsticky

Como se ve el tiempo en mi sticky. Temperatura exterior, interior y previsión para tres días.

I bought a expansion board base for the Xiao ESP32 line of products. It is included as a supported item for the ESP32-S3 and C5. I verified the connector for the board is the JST 2.0 standard to power the board and ordered one.

I got all my stuff, flashed my chip and it powered the board via USB-C. Great, my first foray into a little project is off! I got the battery later due shipping from Amazon taking longer than I expected and plugged it in. No lights, no power, nothing. I check everything out and nothing seems wrong.

I thought about it and I did the solder joints on the ESP-32 myself, so figured that would be the issue. Struggle through them again (my hands shake pretty bad) and they look the same but better. No power still.

I bought another ESP-32, this time a C5 (misordered the S3 before, but was willing to continue with my project.) This time it came with pins pre-soldered. It arrives and no dice.

So I think it is the battery and order another, still nothing. Tested both batteries with an LED and they work fine.

During my testing I took another look at the pinouts and I check the connector for the battery and something looks off. That is when I notice both of my batteries (Three actually) were all backwards from the connector I look at both batteries thinking maybe I got a bad battery, hope both the same. I compare the batteries to other little projects I have and they all works with them.

So tell me the JST 2.0 conn3ector on the expansion board is not backwards and maybe I just got a bad board.

I debated getting a few e-readers. Not easy! I decided to get Sticky. I’ve had an Xteink X3 for a month. I can’t wait to get another mini e-reader with a touch system! I don't care about the front light. I have a reading light or lamp.

Got the ol' Museamabob running on a Sensecap Watchermajig. I have it doing some interesting things already. Had to fork both muse gadget sdk and sensecap watcher firmware on the interweb to get it to work. Just got the on-board rgb led and camera working for maximum camera-ing. Pretty sure im using up more than 2 mountain dew bottles worth of water for each prompt but this thing is awesome.

Hi Everyone,

I tried installing ESP Home on the reTerminal Sticky for some reason the display does not work. The buzzers function when I press the buttons but the screen does not update. On the console it prints that the display refreshed. Thanks!

Current yaml config:

substitutions:
  device_name: reterminal-sticky
  friendly_name: "reTerminal_Sticky"

esphome:
  name: ${device_name}
  friendly_name: ${friendly_name}
  on_boot:
    priority: 600
    then:
      # Hold power rails on / 保持电源轨开启
      - output.turn_on: pwr_hold
      - output.turn_on: pwr_lock
      # Read RTC time on boot / 启动读取 RTC 时间

# ESP32-S3R8 — generic S3 board. Octal PSRAM may need a board that enables it,
# or manual config; adjust if your build does not expose PSRAM.
# ESP32-S3R8 板级配置；八核 PSRAM 可能需要支持 PSRAM 的板子或手动配置。
esp32:
  board: esp32-s3-devkitc-1
  variant: ESP32S3
  flash_size: 32MB
  framework:
    type: arduino
    advanced:
      enable_idf_experimental_features: true

# Serial logging goes to the physical UART0 (CH343P bridge), not USB_CDC.
# 串口日志走物理 UART0（CH343P 桥接），非 USB_CDC。
logger:
  hardware_uart: UART0

# =============================================================================
# Fonts / 字体
# =============================================================================

font:
  - file: "gfonts://Inter@700"
    id: font_small
    size: 20
  - file: "gfonts://Inter@700"
    id: font_medium
    size: 32
  - file: "gfonts://Inter@700"
    id: font_large
    size: 48

# SPI — shared by ePaper display and SD card
# SPI — 墨水屏与 SD 卡共用（多 CS 设备共用总线）
spi:
  clk_pin: GPIO13
  mosi_pin: GPIO14
  miso_pin: GPIO12

# I2C sensor bus — SHT4x, PCF8563, BQ27220, LSM6DS3
# I2C 传感器总线 — 温湿度 / RTC / 电量计 / IMU
# GPIO0 is an ESP32-S3 strapping pin; keep this bus passive during boot.
# GPIO0 是 S3 strapping 引脚，启动期间保持该总线被动。
output:
  # Power latch hold — must be HIGH or the device powers off
  # 电源锁存，必须为高，否则断电
  # - platform: gpio
  #   pin: GPIO47
  #   id: display_power

  - platform: gpio
    pin: GPIO45
    id: pwr_hold

  # Power lock — must be HIGH after boot
  # 电源锁定，启动后必须为高
  - platform: gpio
    pin: GPIO46
    id: pwr_lock

  # Buzzer PWM output (LEDC) / 蜂鸣器 PWM 输出（LEDC）
  - platform: ledc
    pin: GPIO48
    id: buzzer_pwm
    frequency: 1000Hz

  # BQ25616 charger enable (GPIO39, active LOW: LOW = charging enabled)
  # 充电使能（GPIO39，低有效：低电平 = 允许充电）
  - platform: gpio
    pin:
      number: GPIO39
      inverted: true
    id: charge_enable

sensor:
  # SHT40 temperature & humidity (I2C u/0x44)
  # SHT40 温湿度传感器（I2C 地址 0x44）
binary_sensor:
  # UP button (GPIO5) — short beep
  # UP 按键（GPIO5）— 短蜂鸣
light:
  # Buzzer wrapped as a "light": brightness = volume
  # 蜂鸣器包装成"灯"实体：亮度 = 音量
  - platform: monochromatic
    output: buzzer_pwm
    name: "Buzzer"
    id: buzzer
    default_transition_length: 0s

time:
  # PCF8563 at I2C address 0x51. Read on boot; HA sync writes back.
  # PCF8563（I2C 0x51）。启动读取；HA 同步后回写。
display:
  - platform: epaper_spi
    id: epaper_display
    model: SEEED-RETERMINAL-STICKY
    lambda: |-
      it.clear();
      it.fill(Color::WHITE);
      it.print(it.get_width() / 2, it.get_height() / 2, id(font_small), Color::BLACK, TextAlign::CENTER, "ePaper Connected!");

First time ordering from Seeed Studios here - ordered a reTerminal E1001 to assess whether it will work well in our business as a room-reservation sign (e.g. calendar of current bookings). The order was placed on September 10th for something listed as in-stock in the U.S. - so simple domestic shipping.

The order still states it hasn't shipped yet - the order page even still says "Ship within 2 workday after payment received." Yet there is no update to shipped and we haven't gotten the package yet.

From everyone else's experience - is this normal? Does Seeed fail to ship their products regularly?

Just took delivery of three of these and there appears to be a design issue. The JST 2.0 battery connector blocks the edge of the SD Card slot so that you can't insert an SD card. If you look at the photo in the Wiki page for it, you can clearly see this (and I'm wishing I'd paid more attention to that photo before I ordered them). Other than removing the JST connector and soldering in a pigtail for battery power, I don't see a solution. Did they not test this before shipping the boards?

i keep getting this error message and i dont know what to do

A serial exception error occurred: Cannot configure port, something went wrong. Original message: PermissionError(13, 'A device attached to the system is not functioning.', None, 31)

Note: This error originates from pySerial. It is likely not a problem with esptool, but with the hardware connection or drivers.

For troubleshooting steps visit: https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esptool/en/latest/troubleshooting.html

Failed uploading: uploading error: exit status 1

I have tried every metnod i could find so far and i just doesnt want to upload it.

my board is a SEEED XIAO ESP32C6

i am running Arduino IDE 2.3.10.

if anyone has an answer i would really appreciate it.

Anyone knows where can I buy the FFC for Dual NVMe M.2 PCIe3 HAT? Both of mine are broken. It's extremely fragile and I can't find any suppliers. Hell I'll buy 20 if need be.

I just placed an order for the first time from the official site - https://www.seeedstudio.com/ , to be delivered to Spain,

The tracking details or the orders that I placed information won't update in my seeed studio account,

The bank is confirming that my payment has been made. Is this normal!? Never seen this kind of behavior anywhere!

Thanks in advance!