I built a picture frame with a greyscale e-paper that runs on battery for years
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Re: I built a picture frame with a greyscale e-paper that runs on battery for years
#2The title reads like a blog post (great for HN!), but the site link is just a company selling frames. Their byline is:
Digital artwork for your living room. New every day.
Re: I built a picture frame with a greyscale e-paper that runs on battery for years
#3The picture frame runs for years, unlike their web site. "502 Bad Gateway"
Re: I built a picture frame with a greyscale e-paper that runs on battery for years
#4The title reads like a blog post (great for HN!), but the site link is just a company selling frames. Their byline is: Digital artwork for your living room. New every day. So surely somebody did build a picture frame but this is not an article about that.
Owner here. I initially created it for myself, but there was a lot of interest, so I made a kit available so that everybody can build one, too.
Re: I built a picture frame with a greyscale e-paper that runs on battery for years
#5Mirror. https://web.archive.org/web/20201212192629/https://framelabs...
Looks like a commercial product though. This should probably be a "Show HN".
Re: I built a picture frame with a greyscale e-paper that runs on battery for years
#6I wanted to make something like this, I think it's a great idea.
People might be in for a rude awakening if someone figures out how to hack it remotely though, lol
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#7I wanted to make something like this, I think it's a great idea. People might be in for a rude awakening if someone figures out how to hack it remotely though, lol
I am working on providing feeds with "Picture of the day" for the device. I agree that that service should run hardened software to prevent your scenario from happening.
If you run the device in local mode though, WiFi is never enabled.
Re: I built a picture frame with a greyscale e-paper that runs on battery for years
#8This is an advertisement linking to a broken storefront in case anyone was wondering.
Maybe the creator can share more about the design of this device (ex/ what embedded device you're using (ESP32?), is an ASIC driving the display, epaper supplier, etc.)?
Have you considered using E INKs Kaleido coloured epaper?
Re: I built a picture frame with a greyscale e-paper that runs on battery for years
#9The title reads like a blog post (great for HN!), but the site link is just a company selling frames. Their byline is: Digital artwork for your living room. New every day. So surely somebody did build a picture frame but this is not an article about that.
Owner here. I initially created it for myself, but there was a lot of interest, so I made a kit available so that everybody can build one, too.
Do you get the source to the code that runs it, or is that a black box?
Re: I built a picture frame with a greyscale e-paper that runs on battery for years
#10I actually built one myself, but used raspberry pi so it needs usb cable for power. It works well but contrast on the display is not that good for photos. Would work well for text or like smart home panel.