There are a lot of people with old tablets in a drawer.. it'd be nice if there was a way to re-purpose those old screens many of which are good quality (e.g. Ipad 2, HP Touchpad, etc). So a new shell would be needed, the new PCB, likely the new battery, so the only real hard part would be the interface between the pi and the screen.
CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet
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Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
When do the Pixel Qi / One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) / XO-PC screen patents expire? :) Why not both? :) Update: oh holy shit, John Gilmore was a Pixel Qi investor, bought the patents to help the company close cleanly rather than go bankrupt, and licenses the patents with an generally-available Defensive Patent License[1]! What a story!!! Thanks John! Pixel Qi is from ~2010, so he's better than halved the time it took t…
It's a big problem to get active matrix monochrome displays these days, let alone reflective ones.
Hisense sells a transflective monochrome LCD android tablet.
Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet
#83What I really want: a non toy Crowpi2[0]. [0] https://www.elecrow.com/crowpi2.html
The pinebook pro is close to that. It has a different software ecosystem, but is also much faster when web browsing than a Pi4: https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/
I want something I can put my favorite arm sbc inside.
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#84I love this concept, I just really want one with an e-ink screen instead. I think there's a great niche for "embedded" devices around the home -- weather readout panels, lighting controls, music player, intercom, etc. -- but glowing rectangles mounted to the wall are just too... glowing. E-ink panels is where it's at, and a Raspberry Pi powering it is perfect. Unfortunately, the only real general-purpose e-ink tablet…
A few months ago I built a E-ink picture frame, which displays an image that was taken today but x years ago. The picture frame now stands on my desk and already brought back some really nice memories.
In case anyone is interested: https://mindfulbytes.io/
Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet
#85How does it compare with a $200 phone performance wise?
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#86I love this concept, I just really want one with an e-ink screen instead. I think there's a great niche for "embedded" devices around the home -- weather readout panels, lighting controls, music player, intercom, etc. -- but glowing rectangles mounted to the wall are just too... glowing. E-ink panels is where it's at, and a Raspberry Pi powering it is perfect. Unfortunately, the only real general-purpose e-ink tablet…
The stopgap solution for this is pascalw's kindle-dash[1]. I set it up on my jailbroken kindle and now it displays some headlines, my google calendar events, and the weather (via OpenWeatherMap API)
Last time it was on HN: [2]
Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet
#87I love this concept, I just really want one with an e-ink screen instead. I think there's a great niche for "embedded" devices around the home -- weather readout panels, lighting controls, music player, intercom, etc. -- but glowing rectangles mounted to the wall are just too... glowing. E-ink panels is where it's at, and a Raspberry Pi powering it is perfect. Unfortunately, the only real general-purpose e-ink tablet…
I got the BOOX Note 3 and it somewhat dooes what I need it to. It’s mind boggling to me, however, that nobody has tapped into this market yet. I think Lenovo even made a laptop which had one e-ink as well as a regular display, but used the e-ink display in place of the keyboard. That just felt like they were rubbing it in tbh.
I have the note 3 as well and it would be rather perfect for many things if it would have a SD card slot.
Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet
#88Two-hundred bucks is basically "impulse purchase" territory, but I'm nevertheless struggling to see the use case here. If you're into maker projects with Raspberry Pis, then I'm not sure what this does for you. It's a Pi already built into a consumer device. Not seemingly a platform for new maker projects. If you want a tablet with a Linux kernel buried in there somewhere, then there's probably a thousand Android opt…
I was really hoping this would be a "bring your own pi" solution rather than a build in one. If it were BYOP then it'd be great for portable devices like field readings (hydroponic nutrient readings around the greenhouse, wilderness env readings, etc) or taking retropi gaming on the go. I feel like having it built in dampens that portability aspect, especially since RPIs are often reused for various projects.
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#89I love this concept, I just really want one with an e-ink screen instead. I think there's a great niche for "embedded" devices around the home -- weather readout panels, lighting controls, music player, intercom, etc. -- but glowing rectangles mounted to the wall are just too... glowing. E-ink panels is where it's at, and a Raspberry Pi powering it is perfect. Unfortunately, the only real general-purpose e-ink tablet…
There is the m5paper[1] that is around $80 with shipping. It uses an esp32 and is arduino compatible, and the provided libraries are pretty good. [1] https://docs.m5stack.com/#/en/core/m5paper
Oh my gosh. I've spent hours looking for something like this, and was never able to find one. Unfortunately they're out of stock right now, but I'll be ordering one as soon as I can. Thanks!
Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet
#90I love this concept, I just really want one with an e-ink screen instead. I think there's a great niche for "embedded" devices around the home -- weather readout panels, lighting controls, music player, intercom, etc. -- but glowing rectangles mounted to the wall are just too... glowing. E-ink panels is where it's at, and a Raspberry Pi powering it is perfect. Unfortunately, the only real general-purpose e-ink tablet…
A friend & I have a dream of building an E-reader based on the 10" ED097OC4 E-ink display that was built into the Kindle DX and can now be had for around 30€ (old stock?). Most parts of the stack are conceptually figured out: A Pine64 SOPINE module (comparable to the Raspi CM, but cheaper), a Linux DRM driver based on tinydrm ( https://github.com/notro/tinydrm ) or gud ( https://github.com/notro/gud/ ), as panel driv…
All the best with your endeavor, If it works out consider an external E-ink display for the next project as there's a needgap[1] for it.
[1] https://needgap.com/problems/43-affordable-e-ink-large-exter... (Disclaimer : It's my platform).