Show HN: Low-power Kindle-based dashboard
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#2Nice. How hard it will be install this on a Kindle Paperwhite with completely broken touch sensor?
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#3This is excellent work, well done!
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#4I tried to jail break my kindle a while back. But Amazon auto pushed a new firmware and prevented it minutes before I could reboot with the crack. So now my device is up to date and catching dust again. Thanks Amazon.
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#5I just jailbroke my Kindle the other day – PaperWhite 4. Loving KOReader, and looking for more things to run. Awesome to see that there are still modders out there.
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#6I tried to jail break my kindle a while back. But Amazon auto pushed a new firmware and prevented it minutes before I could reboot with the crack. So now my device is up to date and catching dust again. Thanks Amazon.
Yeah they seem to actively prevent jailbreaking on more recent devices. I specifically picked up a used Kindle 4 NT for this project, because it's so easy to jailbreak.
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#7Nice. How hard it will be install this on a Kindle Paperwhite with completely broken touch sensor?
You do need the screen to kick off the jailbreak process I'm afraid.
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#8How you learned the jail breaking and figure out all this? How much time it took to create?
Can you please tell me i am interested.
Thanks
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#9If you don't have a spare Kindle lying around, smallish e-paper modules are nowadays quite cheap, and can be driven easily from a Raspberry Pi (Zero W upwards).
That's what we did on our boat:
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#10I'd love to use this on my working Kindle. Is that possible? Basically, replace the "screensaver" program with this dashboard?