Show HN: Building a 42-inch E-Ink frame for generative art
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#2This is great! I would love to see a sample of the color input images and the resulting image on the display.
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#3When are we going to have cheaper e-ink screens available? Anyone know if the situation has changed in the last couple of years? See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26143779
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#4Fantastic project, thanks for sharing! Prohibitive pricing for home use, but I would really love to have that as a picture frame on the wall. One can dream for the future..
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#5That's a very neat project. The only issue I have with it is that it's basically a passive energy waster. It produces images by burning GPU power, when it could instead curate art from an existing amount of art (of which there is more to ever go through, almost in any category). Some projects that use AI could be replaced with other tech and be much more efficient.
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#6When are we going to have cheaper e-ink screens available? Anyone know if the situation has changed in the last couple of years? See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26143779
Realistically, it’ll be when the patents expire.
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#7When are we going to have cheaper e-ink screens available? Anyone know if the situation has changed in the last couple of years? See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26143779
Yeah I built one with 10" screens
https://dheera.net/projects/einkframe/
I really want to upgrade to at least 31" but it's rather expensive.
Separately in the next irritation of this project I'm hoping to use an ESP32 instead of an RPi Zero to power it, and use the deep sleep mode so it can periodically update but sleep through the rest of the time, allowing a few months of battery life with no wire sticking out.
Even more ideal would be putting a thin strip of solar panel on the top edge of the frame to keep it charged, and use some kind of supercapacitor to power the ESP32, though I don't know if the parts for that exist, especially solar panel that is 1cm wide.
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#8Posh frames e-ink friends! Here's my generative newspaper: https://i.imgur.com/tD1t9u3.jpeg
My wallet stopped at 13.3" though :)
Update for those who saw me post it before: I recently charged the battery for the first time since hanging it in March, which met my expectations.
Shout-out also to the people at Halbe Rahmen, the best picture frames in the world.
Re: Show HN: Building a 42-inch E-Ink frame for generative art
#9That's a very neat project. The only issue I have with it is that it's basically a passive energy waster. It produces images by burning GPU power, when it could instead curate art from an existing amount of art (of which there is more to ever go through, almost in any category). Some projects that use AI could be replaced with other tech and be much more efficient.
I think it simply uses some API to generate the images.
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#10This is great! I would love to see a sample of the color input images and the resulting image on the display.
It's monochrome.