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That price was at quantity '1' though, right?
Yes but even at 10K you’ll be looking at $50 per unit at best. eInk displays are expensive as fuck thanks to patents.
Yes.
Feedback Welcome: I am developing an e-paper calendar as a consumer product
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Re: Feedback Welcome: I am developing an e-paper calendar as a consumer product
#82Is it battery-powered? And how thick is it? I currently have a notepas stuck to the fridge with some magnets, if it was slim and could be powered for a while on a single charge I'd probably put it on the fridge.
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#83I think you should machine the frame as much as possible so that you can get the display as close to the front as possible.
I agree with that. Currently the display is very close to the edge so it feels like you would have to peer round the frame. I guess you want to use as much of our pixel-area as possible, but a bit of margin would make it more relaxing to look at.
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#84Here's what I thought when I read "e-paper calendar." You know how most calendars have a gorgeous photo above the dates (that changes with each month?)
- Is there any way you could have a larger screen (or a second screen) just to reproduce the feel of having the grid of dates below an eye-catching photo? (I remember being really impressed by the pictures of famous authors Amazon used as screensavers on early editions of the Kindle -- and thought it'd be fun to see some high-quality nature photos in black-and-white e-ink.)
- If this ever became a commercial product, people could even use their own photos.
- Images could even be put on "shuffle" -- so the e-ink calendar had an entirely different image above the dates every day of the month.
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Huh. Alright then. Either way, I'd recommend leaning toward a less textured, richer/darker color and species of wood. If you go lighter, it's going to look a little washed out IMO. Also, in your quality control for the wood bits, make sure that those mitered corners all line up evenly across the entire joint (examples of what I'm talking about highlighted here: https://monosnap.com/file/MkTzAjJhx7v7DkL5kOKypQNFKVyrNU…
Thank for the tips on the woodwork. I am not sure if a darker color would make the screen look brighter or darker. I had noticed those gaps in the frame as well. I agree they look poorly made :) I think they are mostly from the fact that this was cut with a hand saw, and the cut wasn't even throughout the Z axis. I am hoping that I will be able to fix this as I go from a prototyping process to a more refined producti…
Not the original commenter, but
> CNC milling the wood
It’s a frame. It’s not a complex shape. A simple mitre saw should be enough to do this consistently. Don’t make this more complicated than it needs to be.
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#86I'm not sure who this product is targeted at. If it's for "home consumers" then it doesn't really make that much sense as the calendar is focussed on the 9-5, while home calendars are usually more focused on the 4pm-10pm. Also bear in mind that home calendars will have multiple simultaneous appointments - Dad will take the dog to the vet appointment while Mum takes her daughter to the ballet, so it needs to be possib…
Looks like it would work well in offices to stick on the outside of meeting rooms or any kind of shared space. I don’t like it as a personal calendar.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh. Alright then. Either way, I'd recommend leaning toward a less textured, richer/darker color and species of wood. If you go lighter, it's going to look a little washed out IMO. Also, in your quality control for the wood bits, make sure that those mitered corners all line up evenly across the entire joint (examples of what I'm talking about highlighted here: https://monosnap.com/file/MkTzAjJhx7v7DkL5kOKypQNFKVyrNU…
Thank for the tips on the woodwork. I am not sure if a darker color would make the screen look brighter or darker. I had noticed those gaps in the frame as well. I agree they look poorly made :) I think they are mostly from the fact that this was cut with a hand saw, and the cut wasn't even throughout the Z axis. I am hoping that I will be able to fix this as I go from a prototyping process to a more refined producti…
Re CNCing the wood: I'm not a woodworker, but given the simplicity of the cut, I'd dare say that miter sawing the planks using a guide would more than suffice.
Re: Feedback Welcome: I am developing an e-paper calendar as a consumer product
#88I like this. I would buy it.
I would also buy a related product that would fetch a particular web page every couple of minutes and display it on the screen. It's possible to hack up various devices to accomplish this, but the setup is a pain. Mega bonus points for no cloud crap, just connect to wifi and do everything locally.
One thing I'd love to see in both of these products is no refresh if the content hasn't changed. One annoying aspect of e-paper displays is that they have to flash white and black when refreshing. If there is no change to the content, this isn't necessary, and then doesn't present a distraction out of the corner of your eye.
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#89I like this. I would buy it. I would also buy a related product that would fetch a particular web page every couple of minutes and display it on the screen. It's possible to hack up various devices to accomplish this, but the setup is a pain. Mega bonus points for no cloud crap, just connect to wifi and do everything locally. One thing I'd love to see in both of these products is no refresh if the content hasn't chan…
> One thing I'd love to see in both of these products is no refresh if the content hasn't changed.
That's already implemented actually :)
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#90The wood bezel is kind of ugly & cheap looking. The audience for this is likely to be tech people and users who want to show off their calendar or manage their time with calendar invites. I think this could do well with a more contemporary frame. You could market it to people as a solution to forgetting meetings; the price would have to be low enough (sub $100) to trigger people’s impulse buying. The lower the price…
I like the wood, but I'm not fond of the choice.
Yea, I'll try to find something with less texture for sure.