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MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia
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This is both fair and obvious... but at the same time, the nits folk are bringing up are not fleshed out. "I had to reboot my raspberry pi" and "whoops rando eInk display doesn't do javascript" are both super weird and frankly unfair to consider as criticisms of the original solution. ... In short - if our parish priest above sees the original post, I'd suggest he give it a go. It's an hour to set up and won't cost h…
Kobo readers are fairly non-rando, they're the second most popular eInk readers after the Kindle I think. I agree that lack of Javascript support is not a blocking issue on the use case though (although it does make it a little more annoying).
Luckily the original solution doesn't involve javascript...
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assuming your eink display would be on the same LAN as some always-on PC... 1. install python 2. make a file named `index.html` somewhere. 2a. put this in the "head" tag, so it'll refresh hourly: ` `. 3. run `python -m http.server` from the same folder This will start a single-threaded web server on 8000 4. On another machine on your network verify you can pull up http://firstmachine:8000/. 5. having proven it works,…
Thanks for the inspiration. I did essentially this as a project with the kids today, though I used js to allow updating by anyone in the family. https://github.com/TrisSherliker/FridgeChalkboard/tree/main
Heyyy I'm internet famous! :blush: Thanks for mentioning me, hope it works well for you.
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#254This gives me hope in humanity.
This is using tech to humanize.
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Anyway you could check on mine? I've yet to receive it, and I'm ready to start hacking!
i imagine we aren't at your cohort yet but email team@usetrmnl.com and we'll get yours out today, regardless. tiny thank you for the shout here!
Life happened, and I realized I would not be in town over holiday! Thanks for the offer though. I can't wait to get it and write some code for it!
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#256NB: As the article mentions concerns about burn-in, this doesn't seem to be an issue for e-ink devices. Many ship with a standard image or set of images displayed when powered off or suspended. Presumably those display for long periods of time. My experience over ~3 years with a similar Onyx BOOX device has been that those images don't burn in at all. What is experienced is temporary ghosting which varies by display…
lovely note thank you. i checked out Boox and it seems to all be sold out - any ideas how to get one (or a good enough alternative) today?
Sorry, no idea what Onyx's inventory status / fulfillment time is.
I'd bought mine a few years back through their online store. Arrived in a few days as I recall.
https://onyxboox.com/product#actual>
Onyx refresh their offerings frequently, though older models typically still sell for a while. You might be between offerings.
You can also likely buy used from online sales sites (e.g., Craigslist, eBay).
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#257My wife acquired anterograde amnesia after a car accident. This device may or may not have worked for her: she would probably have discovered the device anew every time (as in, every 10 minutes or so), although she would probably be pleased each time. Thankfully she fully recovered after a few weeks. It takes a lot of patience to deal with someone like that, and you could tell it frequently caused a lot of frustratio…
What exactly causes anterograde amnesia? Why is it temporary for some people and permanent for others?
There's no single cause. Forming memories requires many parts of the brain. Injury to or illness in any one of them can cause anteretrograde amnesia.
It's like asking "what makes a person unable to walk?" Arthritis, paralysis, muscle wasting, MS, Parkinson's, a broken bone, an amputated foot... some are temporary, some are permanent.
Walking is hard, even though most of us can do it. Forming memories is similarly hard.
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#258> One small challenge was maximizing the size of the message text. Sometimes a message is just a word or two; other times it might be several sentences. A single font size can’t accommodate such a wide range of text content. I couldn’t find a pure CSS way to automatically maximize font size so that a text element with word wrapping would display without clipping. > I ended up writing a small JavaScript function to ma…
There is pure CSS solution: https://kizu.dev/fit-to-width/
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I'm a backer, but this would probably fit your bill https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/usetrmnl/trmnl-the-e-in... I wanted the same kind of general eink device, but this is also supposedly super hackable!
Seems very nice buuuut why did they put the USB-C on the back if it is supposed to be wall mounted and needs to be charged every couple of months? Why not on one side??
Solution: mount it with magnets.