I wish I could buy a small and light E ink typewriter. Size of iPad mini, but with a keyboard, and stiff enough to be used on my laps.
Building a simple e-ink display from scratch
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Re: Building a simple e-ink display from scratch
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've had good experiences with a 10" eInk dev kit from Pervasive Displays, purchased from DigiKey. Looks like it's out of stock right now, but they've got a 7.4" and a 4.4" form factor in stock: https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/pervasive-displays... https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/pervasive-displays... https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/pervasive-displays...
How do you program this? Is it easy to get started with?
At the low level, it's pretty straightforward to work with their dev kits. A Raspberry Pi + some jumper cables + a bit of python gets things going.
There are some quirks, since for the most part the board is optimized for internal update speed, not for usability. I ended up putting together some code to update the display given a PNG file, including some basic dithering for greyscale. And I drive all that from screenshots of a browser running in a virtual X terminal on the RPi. The update speed is not the best (several seconds from screenshot to render), but that's fine for my use case, since I'm using it for slow-moving info (weather, bus schedule, tides, etc.) and I'm better at writing HTML+JS for UI than writing bitmaps.
Re: Building a simple e-ink display from scratch
#33Does anybody think having a gigantic e-ink desktop monitor would be rad for coding? The refresh rate might be a killer, but I wonder how your eyes would feel after 8 hours compared to an conventional monitor.
Re: Building a simple e-ink display from scratch
#34I feel that the displays in the Pebble watches (ie Sharp's memory LCDs [1]) are a much better alternative to LCDs than e-ink. Their power consumption is in the uW range with more than 30fps refresh rate.
[1] https://www.sharpsma.com/products?sharpCategory=Memory%20LCD
Re: Building a simple e-ink display from scratch
#35Meanwhile I use an original OLPC XO-1 as an e-reader. It has a beatiful 200 ppi color/transflective display. Such a shame that Pixel Qi is no more.
Re: Building a simple e-ink display from scratch
#36I wish I could buy a small and light E ink typewriter. Size of iPad mini, but with a keyboard, and stiff enough to be used on my laps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF1b3qgw-K4
a 9,7" netbook with an e-ink screen. Unfortunately not for sale yet AFAIK
Re: Building a simple e-ink display from scratch
#37Recently, I tried to contact E-Ink, hoping to get information for an architectural use of some of their supposed products. I couldn't get any real information, conceptual pricing, development kit, summary of capabilities, or anything useful out of their sales staff. I repeatedly explained, I am a well capitalized entrepreneur wanting to incorporate some of their tech into my properties at scale, and that I have a dev…
Sony has done some interesting e-ink things, of course they were able to partner with e-ink
Re: Building a simple e-ink display from scratch
#38I wish I could buy a small and light E ink typewriter. Size of iPad mini, but with a keyboard, and stiff enough to be used on my laps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF1b3qgw-K4 a 9,7" netbook with an e-ink screen. Unfortunately not for sale yet AFAIK
A little bulky I think. Not something I would casually drop into my backpack.
Re: Building a simple e-ink display from scratch
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF1b3qgw-K4 a 9,7" netbook with an e-ink screen. Unfortunately not for sale yet AFAIK
A little bulky I think. Not something I would casually drop into my backpack.
Are we looking at the same video? The video should be the Onyx BOOX Typewriter. It's the size of a tablet and a keyboard cover. It's a HUGE improvement over the last entry I saw in this space, the hemingwrite[0].
Re: Building a simple e-ink display from scratch
#40Does anybody think having a gigantic e-ink desktop monitor would be rad for coding? The refresh rate might be a killer, but I wonder how your eyes would feel after 8 hours compared to an conventional monitor.
You mean like the Dasung Paperlike[0]? Consensus from the writers I know is it's pretty awesome. Not a lot of programmers use them at this point because it's black and white, so there's no syntax highlighting. It's also powered and connected via USB, so there is a delay when typing fast that could drive some programmers crazy. It's about the same responsiveness as a regular monitor hooked up with a DVI to usb adapter.
[0]: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/paperlike-world-s-first-e...