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Are e-ink displays ever going to get cheap? By now the basic patents should be running out.
The competition is still pretty expensive. The e-paper display I am using in my digital calendar is not from eink (as far as I’m aware), but still costs about 50 Euro if you buy a single one: https://www.waveshare.com/7.5inch-e-paper-hat.htm It’s the main cost driver of my calendar, it basically forces the price point: https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale...
Any thoughts/plans on allowing a customer to self-host the backend? Or would you publish specs so someone could build their own?
I love the idea of this, and we would love to have one of these in our house, I've just been burned too many times with fully functional physical products bricking because the company behind it goes away.
I know you say you plan to support it for a long time, but everyone says that. :-(
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The competition is still pretty expensive. The e-paper display I am using in my digital calendar is not from eink (as far as I’m aware), but still costs about 50 Euro if you buy a single one: https://www.waveshare.com/7.5inch-e-paper-hat.htm It’s the main cost driver of my calendar, it basically forces the price point: https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale...
I was about to buy one of these until I saw it relies on a backend service that you provide. Any thoughts/plans on allowing a customer to self-host the backend? Or would you publish specs so someone could build their own? I love the idea of this, and we would love to have one of these in our house, I've just been burned too many times with fully functional physical products bricking because the company behind it goes…
I know everyone says they’ll support their hardware for a long time and then they don’t. And of course I cannot give a guarantee.
But I have no masters to report to. No VCs and no Directors or CFOs.
So if I want to keep the backend running, I can just keep paying 20 Euro a month to Hetzner and keep the server updated.
I stupidly upgraded my Kindle 4 to the latest firmware, and apparently there's no jailbreak for that and no way to downgrade.
I did a similar project HDMI in https://hackaday.com/2021/01/08/old-kindle-shows-hdmi-video-... to make an OK Monitor - https://barwap.com/projects/okmonitor/
I don't think there's a business model there (I suspect the sales would be in the thousands or tens of thousands of dollars -- so no matter where you set your profit margin, you're not covering your time or much beyond costs), but I've sometimes seen things done like that on hobby projects just for impact.
I'd love to have a wireless eInk display for my computer, ideally from a USB-C dongle (so it gets video and power), but HDMI + USB power would be fine too.
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Interesting that you perceive hn as a platform for short form content.
Twitter is where his link points...
Though it did already point to the gist back then, and I am still unsure how I can tell it pointed to twitter originally.
Thanks though?
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Why trade one walled garden for another? Just use something like Calibre and combine it with something like Kavita.
What does combining them get you? I use Calibre but hadn't heard of Kavita and I'm not clear what Kavita gives me that I don't already have with Calibre?
Kavita is more like Plex, where when you have your library in something of a decent form it makes using your library a much better experience.
Its also the only tool I know of that handles both manga and ebook libraries well.