ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks

Post by SulfurHexaFluri » Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 1:16 AM UTC

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calebkaiser wrote: post #46

I wish so badly that color e-ink was further along. I'd love a tablet that could replace my notebooks, but for some reason, needing a second screen to read my textbooks (color is nonnegotiable for diagram-heavy some textbooks, in my experience) makes me reticent. The ReMarkable 2 looks fantastic, and I love the idea of a distraction-free, dedicated writing/reading tablet, but $450 feels just a touch too far for a dev…

> I wish so badly that color e-ink was further along It is coming: a waveshare 7 color eink screen is $600 on aliexpress, 16 second refresh If partial refresh comes more supported in open source, pictures could be drawn immediately with the b&w text, then refresh little by little to add color.

Post by cambalache » Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 1:29 AM UTC

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I suppose your mattress phones home to tell its makers how often you sleep and with which frequency you do other vigorous physical activities on it. Only way to improve it.

I think that a mattress is a bit simpler than an application with hundreds of thousands of possible interactions. There are not so many different ways you can use a mattress.

Post by m463 » Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 2:27 AM UTC

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I really worry about the normalization of this sort of thing. Really - in a respectful relationship with a vendor - you would gain SO much by just asking. Even if people say no. Really, it's like "I wasn't stalking you, I was just collecting valuable feedback for improving our next date!" Instead, try "Hey, how are you - did you have fun?"

When I worked at HERE we had a feedback form in the corner. More than half of the feedback was people who were angry about the feedback form itself.

Post by striking » Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 2:48 AM UTC

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I don't have the reMarkable 2, but I preordered v1 and have been using it pretty regularly since then. I've really enjoyed it and greatly prefer it for my primary use case of reading and reviewing academic papers. I find it far superior to an iPad in this respect. Mostly because of the display. The specific points of feedback you have are common with the v1 device. With the exception of pressure sensitivity. The pen…

If it has pressure sensitivity, it seems to be a random number generator. It does some stroke thickness tweaks depending on speed and maybe the angle the pen touches the screen with, but my experiments of drawing a straight line at constant speed with variable pressure have yielded a line of constant thickness every time.

Post by SulfurHexaFluri » Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 3:15 AM UTC

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16 second refresh is a complete nonstarter for a note taking device. Its only good enough for a desk calendar screen. I'm not sure how much more can be done since these color e paper displays are basically a hack which doesn't scale well and degrades refresh rates as contrast from the ones I have seen. There are a few "color eink" displays floating around in demos which are actually just an lcd with a matte layer ove…

This is a genuine color eink, not an lcd mask hack