Stock Price Displayer

Things have been crazy ever since GME has been put into the spotlight by Wall Street Bets. I decided to create this not only to keep track of the prices of these meme stocks, but also to view my own investments quickly!

I use a 16x2 LCD display to show off the ticker symbol, stock price, and stock change throughout the day. I also 3D printed a few parts just to make it look a little bit more professional, and put on a rocket ship that spins depending if the stock is down or up that day. From the video, you can see me pressing the top and bottom push-buttons to cycle through the different stocks that I uploaded to the board. I only included 9 different tickers in this model, but you can just as easily add as many as you'd like!

For the brains, I used an Arduino Uno as a client since it was fairly simple to set it up. I used Python and the yahoo_fin library to retrieve the stock information. It gets information stock information in real time and sends it to the Uno for processing. That means that this device can be used while people are trading throughout the day! From the pictures, you can also see my messy wiring I tried to hide in the back :(.

This was just a quick, fun project I made in honor of these stocks shooting up. Although it probably is faster to just Google any of these stock prices, I thought it would be cool to have a separate display to view anytime you want. I hope that this inspires you to do something as well, just for the fun!