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Re: Flux Keyboard

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Post by yurishimo »

dogma1138 wrote: post #209
shaunsingh0207 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

E-ink is extremely expensive, especially at the size of a keyboard like that. Memory LCD would be more practical, but at that point the lcd costs the same and offers more power for those who want it. There isn't anything stopping you from making the entire screen black except for the legends, probably

Yet E-ink is cheap enough for price tags at big box stores…?

My understanding is that the price of the displays is largely dependent on the size of the screen due to manufacturing techniques. I don't know the specifics unfortunately.

Re: Flux Keyboard

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Post by vopi »

sho_hn wrote: post #144
vopi wrote: post #123

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I was recently messing around with a very small eink display (and used it to display HN posts somewhat similar in concept to you). Out of curiosity, what display is that/where did you source it from?

It's a 13.3" 1600x1200 panel made by E Ink, from the Carta product line also used in Kindles et all, the ED133UT2. I bought it via Waveshare together with a little driver board featuring the ITE IT8951 controller: https://www.waveshare.com/product/displays/e-paper/epaper-1/... The ED133UT2 is also available from E Ink directly and from other shops, but I haven't seen a significantly better price. There are also some…

Ahh thanks!

Re: Flux Keyboard

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Post by mlambie »

SxC97 wrote: post #218
k_ wrote: post #187

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Looks like a nice use case for eink IMO, as I don't see the point of having video playing under my keys but having keycaps that can change depending on the context sounds nice.

I remember seeing this _exact_ comment back in the late 2000s and being really excited for an eInk keyboard. eInk was always a super cool tech that was _just_ around the corner, but after almost 15 years I'm disapointed that it's applications have been largely restricted to eReades.

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Re: Flux Keyboard

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Post by muyuu »

sho_hn wrote: post #50
shaunsingh0207 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

E-ink is extremely expensive, especially at the size of a keyboard like that. Memory LCD would be more practical, but at that point the lcd costs the same and offers more power for those who want it. There isn't anything stopping you from making the entire screen black except for the legends, probably

True dat. I recently made this for my home, as a once-a-day automatic newspaper deco thingie (ticking all the latest hype boxes: wrote a custom Rust driver for the EPD controller, and it's now also using the ChatGPT API to trim and style-transfer articles and headlines -- this and also various layout/typography improvements not yet in that album): https://imgur.com/a/PqkhdGd $400+shipping for the display panel (a com…

yea it's a shame that e-ink screens larger than 6in or so get so much more expensive, they're not practical for low-cost appliances and toys

Re: Flux Keyboard

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Post by LoveMortuus »

SxC97 wrote: post #218
k_ wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like a nice use case for eink IMO, as I don't see the point of having video playing under my keys but having keycaps that can change depending on the context sounds nice.

I remember seeing this _exact_ comment back in the late 2000s and being really excited for an eInk keyboard. eInk was always a super cool tech that was _just_ around the corner, but after almost 15 years I'm disapointed that it's applications have been largely restricted to eReades.

It would be extremely cool to finally end the constant pain of either overpaying for a laptop with my country's localization on the keyboard or straight up using a keyboard from a different country and just not looking at the keyboard since the buttons are all different when you set the software localization to my own country. eInk under every key, would of course be expensive at first but it would mean that the keyboards would now only have to be developed for US and got the ISO standard.

My stationary computer has Slovenian layout (which is where I'm from), Chromebook has German (where I also bought the laptop) layout because I couldn't find the same model for anywhere close to the same price in Slovenia (which is very common, most electronics I've bought have been from Germany or elsewhere just not Slovenia, because even including the shipping it's still cheaper.

But I still set the software keyboard layout to Slovenian, which means that the stuff that's printed on the keyboard is useless to me...

If anyone is looking for an excellent website to compare prizes and find products in Europe, I highly recommend geizhals.eu, the filter options make it so that you can basically build your own laptop, they are really amazing!

Re: Flux Keyboard

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Post by shaunsingh0207 »

dogma1138 wrote: post #209
shaunsingh0207 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

E-ink is extremely expensive, especially at the size of a keyboard like that. Memory LCD would be more practical, but at that point the lcd costs the same and offers more power for those who want it. There isn't anything stopping you from making the entire screen black except for the legends, probably

Yet E-ink is cheap enough for price tags at big box stores…?

E-ink gets exponentially more expensive with size, and an e-ink panel in this keyboard would have to have a fairly decent resolution and refresh rate, whereas the price tags are usually 1-bit color, low res, and barely have to refresh
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