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ArtFrame: E-paper wireless artwork for your living room

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Re: ArtFrame: E-paper wireless artwork for your living room

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Post by pastrami_panda »

kderbyma wrote: post #2

don't you need to charge them eventually? so you end up taking them down a lot. they should think about wireless charging pads that can be installed into the wall for these sorts of things.

Sounds like a good idea.

Just anecdotally I found it pretty fascinating that I bought a new Kindle some three months ago and it still hasn't run out of batteries (came with 76% and now at 16%).

Admittedly I haven't been using it a lot though.

Re: ArtFrame: E-paper wireless artwork for your living room

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Post by nsriv »

kderbyma wrote: post #2

don't you need to charge them eventually? so you end up taking them down a lot. they should think about wireless charging pads that can be installed into the wall for these sorts of things.

I wonder if trickle charging with a few calculator-type solar cells on each edge of the frame (not the face of the frame) would be feasible as well to prolong battery life.

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Post by lnyng »

kderbyma wrote: post #2

don't you need to charge them eventually? so you end up taking them down a lot. they should think about wireless charging pads that can be installed into the wall for these sorts of things.

But that requires a wire that goes from the outlet all the way to the charge pad though, right? I think the main goal is to have no visible wire when it's on the wall. On the other hand 7k image changes before going out of battery seems quite a lot. Just not sure if that's a representative number.

Re: ArtFrame: E-paper wireless artwork for your living room

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Post by lnyng »

I was recently searching for wedding gift for my photographer friend and found this. There does not seem to exist many other e-paper art frames and this one looks decent. It also has some open source software (https://github.com/framelabs-eu), but the firmware seems closed-source.

Re: ArtFrame: E-paper wireless artwork for your living room

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Post by klondike_ »

kderbyma wrote: post #2

don't you need to charge them eventually? so you end up taking them down a lot. they should think about wireless charging pads that can be installed into the wall for these sorts of things.

E-ink screens only consume power when refreshing so if you don't change the image a lot you won't need to charge it often

Re: ArtFrame: E-paper wireless artwork for your living room

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Post by lancesells »

kderbyma wrote: post #2

don't you need to charge them eventually? so you end up taking them down a lot. they should think about wireless charging pads that can be installed into the wall for these sorts of things.

If that's the case wouldn't it be easier to just have a power cord?
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