"making it is way"
Does "coldpie's" mean "coldpie is" or "belonging to coldpie"?
E-paper is making it's way into museums
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Re: E-paper is making it's way into museums
#52Anyone seen cheap E-paper solutions, one could use at home for various things?
Sure, you can use HTML&JS to create an interactive E-Paper device with the technology that Visionect offers - check the development kits: https://www.visionect.com/development_kits
I doubt that $700 counts as cheap to most people
Re: E-paper is making it's way into museums
#53...and "its" seems to be making it is way out of the English Language.
Re: E-paper is making it's way into museums
#54Although I can see the advantage of having a digital label in a lot of cases, I don't see the necessity in a museum environment. There is serious human interaction necessary to change the collection to move and change the works of art. It would be easy to change the label at that time. What use case is there to change the label "on the fly"?
How about showing different slides to show more text. Imagine it rotating between 5 blocks of text. That's 5x the information you can display. I'm usually disappointed by the tiny amounts of texts those little placards show.
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#55Its funny how we link 'museum' with 'outdated things'. When I first saw that title I just thought that would be something like e-paper being obsolete.
E-paper is kinda incredible. It uses no power once its drawn and works off the light in the room. I mean, we could make this placard with the newest OLED displays, but it would look distracting and tacky to have this bright source of light next to the artwork.
Its not outdated if nothing can compete against it in these use cases. The same way I'm typing this message on a 101-key style keyboard with a design that is pretty much unchanged for 30+ years.
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#57The best think about e-paper is low-power usage: it needs >>no power<< to hold an image. Power is consumed only when changing the image...
... not to mention very good reading capability when exposed to direct sunlight
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#58Anyone seen cheap E-paper solutions, one could use at home for various things?
You can use a cheap Kindle for playing a bit around with web pages: https://github.com/PaulFreund/WebLaunch
(No first hand experience yet, weekend project for this weekend :))
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You can get refresh on a Kindle screen down to under 100ms if you want plain black and white. You only get the ludicrous refresh times if you want greyscale --- I believe they do some kind of dithering over time to achieve that. Back in the old days I had a Hercules monitor with slow phosphor. I've tried to find some figures on the response rate, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was a similar speed to the eink scree…
Update: here's a 32" epaper monitor! https://www.visionect.com/development_kits Greyscale: $3600. Colour: $4700. There's a 13" model at a mere $999, but who wants that? Slightly more realistically, there's the Dasung Paperlike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9DbdaPQyLY
Interesting thanks. 13.3" is just under the size of US Letter or A4 paper.
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How about that ? https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-DX-Wireless-Reader-3G-Global/d... Even better maybe, the Onyx Boox Max at 13.3 inches: http://www.banggood.com/ONYX-BOOX-Max-13_3-Inch-1G16G-Flexib...
Are there any good hackable e-ink tablets? I love the feel of my Nook but the software is terrible. I want to be able to wirelessly sync content from my own document management system without much fuss. I periodically poke around on Alibaba looking for basic, blank e-ink readers but haven't seen much.
Sony made some models running Android that you could root, but I think their current offerings don't have that. For others (some Kindles, I think Nooks?) jailbreaks were also available, so that is something worth researching.