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You can buy a 7.5” e-ink hat for the RPI for around 60$.
I can find some for $150-250. Can you share links to less expensive options?
I think they are Waveshare's supplier, you might even get cheaper/more specific stuff: https://www.good-display.com/product/6/
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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!
I once bought a small E-Paper display [1] for a Raspi, and was very disappointed with the refresh rate, it was useless. I wanted to use it to display room temperature and electrical information like home power consumption, solar panel power generation and stuff like that, and expected a refresh rate of around 1 update per second. Having it blink and do stuff for around 7 seconds just to redraw the next frame made me…
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Yeah, but you can bet that 10 years later you won't be running obsolete software on it.
What makes you think CutiePi Shell will be maintained that long? Android has withstood the test of time, and although you'd need a custom mod to update your Nexus 7, chances are CutiePi won't live that long.
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I’ve been thinking about my kid’s first computer and something in this ballpark is interesting. More hackable than iPad, not quite the complexity of a laptop. Not sure this one is quite right’ especially compared to the Pi400, but nice to have the tablet form factor.
Pi400 is a fun thing. How much more powerful is the Pi400?
RAM-wise the CM4 they're using in the CutiePi has 2GB, while the 400 has 4GB.
Two-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…
Their software and hardware are open source. Far cry from alternative android tablets. Either way, building a tablet, even based on a raspberry pi, is no easy feat.
At least for the Mediatek stuff there's some leaked datasheets and programming manuals as well as board layouts and such.
The CM4 is really small, should be possible to make something that's not a brick :) Not as svelte as some Android tablets no, but still better than this.
I 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…
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…
I'd love to have one too, I live in Spain and it would really help with outdoor use in the sun.
I love this idea, but I would like something more ambitious. This is a interesting addition to the stable of Linux Tablets - with the Pine Tab that is one and a half? Thing is I am desperate to have a tablet with decent capabilities (and at about $500 price point) that is not a consumer device, and I need it nine months ago. Too late now - up to my eyebrows in Apple iPad nonsense. I have been working on a application…
> Thing is I am desperate to have a tablet with decent capabilities (and at about $500 price point) that is not a consumer device Reading your rant, I have no idea what your problem or requirements actually are. Why not buy $350 Surface Go tablets and put together a Linux image that runs on it?
I do not think that is a very good suggestion!
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I see a sleep/wake button, but my Raspi 400 has no such feature, and googling about whether this can truly be done are inconclusive. 5h standby time suggests the sleep isn't a very deep one.
It might be hibernation, as in putting RAM on disk and shutting down.