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32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)

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Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)

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Post by hau »

Tempest1981 wrote: post #188
beheh wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You may be confusing purchasing hardware and cloud subscription from the vendor producing the e ink display (Visionect) with the Project E ink device itself, which merely sources it's hardware from Visionect. The linked page is about the Project E ink device ( https://projecteink.com/products/e-ink-newspaper-art-display... ). The only place that page mentions a subscription is in reference to news paper subscriptions…

hau might have followed the Visionect link, then clicked "software": https://www.visionect.com/software/

https://www.visionect.com/shop/place-play-32/

This is a product page I looked at. Hard to interpret "Place & Play devices work on a subscription basis. Select a plan here." near "Add to cart" button.

Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)

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Post by dumbfounder »

marcuskaz wrote: post #149
dobin wrote: post #64

Looks nice, but it's still just more news for the news addicted. Silly idea dump: How about: A 4k TV in form of a window, which displays a live stream of a 4k camera of various places in nature. Lets say, in the middle of the forest, or a beach in italy. To have a window into another place, for some calm and mindfulness.

This site has feeds of windows around the world: https://www.window-swap.com

Wow, it's like I am living in 1990's vision of the future!

Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)

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Post by unholythree »

sandworm101 wrote: post #187
junon wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think I'm your target demographic but I always appreciate folks who make their hardware accessible like this. Thank you :)

Who is the target demo? I'm old enough to have had actual newspapers appear on my doorstep. I ever saw anyone mount them on a wall, at least not in a private home. I would think a table/tablet orientation would be more appealing than an awkward wall mount. Is this thing meant to be art, a bit of faux-nostalgia decoration?

I’ve seen newspapers hung above urinals as reading material. Generally the front page or the sports page under glass.

Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)

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Post by hau »

paulcole wrote: post #122
hau wrote: post #78

This screen comes with a subscription based cloud CMS. The only way to pass image to this display semms to be through a proprietary application which is this so called CMS. There are no other connectivity options mentioned. You are unable to use this screen if: - subscription is not paid - company decides to terminate your subscription under any condition of your contract - company decides to sunset software or a pro…

That’s OK though right? As long as you know that going in you can decide if it’s worth it for you. Personally, I’d rather have something that works out of the box in exchange for a bit of money and risk that the company will go out of business one day than something that I have to spend time tinkering with to get and keep working.

It's not OK in my opinion to have perfectly capable hardware and software be obsoleted by circumstances outside of your control. I consider it to be wasteful and unnecessary. It don't have to conflict with convinience and services provided by cloud CMS. As we've figured out in other thread this is not an issue with this particular display - apparently, you could make it work without touching external networks, and it's decently supported by Visionect way of doing things.

Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)

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Post by 93po »

intpx wrote: post #179

It’s been 16 years since the Kindle was released and I am super bummed that e-ink/e-paper is still so friggin expensive and esoteric.

Screens up to about 11 inches are decently affordable when you buy the bare hardware and attach it to an arduino or whatever of your choice

Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)

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Post by 93po »

sho_hn wrote: post #26

I built a smaller, battery-powered version of this idea with Rust and ChatGPT: https://imgur.io/a/NoTr8XX / https://hackaday.io/project/190478-hyepaper

I came across this a while back wanting to make my own - thanks for this! I wound up deciding to just get an InkPlate because I also wanted something to take off the wall and review

Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)

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Post by 93po »

762236 wrote: post #184
dobin wrote: post #64

Looks nice, but it's still just more news for the news addicted. Silly idea dump: How about: A 4k TV in form of a window, which displays a live stream of a 4k camera of various places in nature. Lets say, in the middle of the forest, or a beach in italy. To have a window into another place, for some calm and mindfulness.

Life is so much better without news in it.

I have a similar smaller project that gives me a daily passage, weather, my to do list, calendar items, and daily checklist items

Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)

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Post by barefootcoder »

swores wrote: post #42
TulliusCicero wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No you couldn't.

Depends on the person but it doesn't seem completely impossible - ignoring inflation, $250/yr for If they can manage it in 3min rather than 5, it's up to $13.70/hr. Where I am (UK) I think most newspaper delivery people are aged 13-18, and while there's far less of them about than when I was a kid, I wouldn't be surprised if >50% would be willing to do it to earn an extra $4.80/week. Of course, you also need to trust…

I think you've overlooked the realistic useful lifetime of the product, and how long the novelty factor would last -- if you price it according to that duration I think that you'd find the hourly rate to be far higher.

Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)

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Post by 93po »

LittleNemoInS wrote: post #126
mechhacker wrote: post #85

Would be interesting to me to have something like this, but in landscape mode, and with slowly changing blueprints of aircraft, rockets, ships, cars... Example: https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Portals/14/EasyGalleryImage...

Something like the Samsung Frame ? https://www.samsung.com/us/tvs/the-frame/highlights/

I wish this wasn’t so expensive. $600 for 32”, $1000 for 42, up to $2600
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