A WiFi color eInk picture frame
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A WiFi color eInk picture frame
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Re: A WiFi color eInk picture frame
#2I love e-ink in general, it's a shame that it's still so rarely used. My fossil hybrid hr watch uses it, for example, but though the watch itself is incredible, the app is pure garbage. If that weren't the case, I'd recommend it to everyone.
I wonder if there aren't a lot more cases like that, where it seems like costumers don't like the technology, even though they mainly resent the paired implementation of the big players who thought that the technology alone was enough of a selling point, and therefore neglected the software.
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#3I'm thinking, like, "take a photo of the kids so it will show up on Grandma's frame" kind of functionality. Though, obviously, it would also be used for porn, so there's a market there, too.
Anyway, very good DIY proof of concept. I hope it's productized with some of the more recent E-Ink updates soon!
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#5Still, as a person with no intention to DIY, I’m looking forward to a simple eink photo frame product.
Crucially, something that works out of the box and is shipping now (so: no Kickstarter, no need to write custom scripts, etc).
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#6Impressive DIY project. Still, as a person with no intention to DIY, I’m looking forward to a simple eink photo frame product. Crucially, something that works out of the box and is shipping now (so: no Kickstarter, no need to write custom scripts, etc).
Re: A WiFi color eInk picture frame
#7Impressive DIY project. Still, as a person with no intention to DIY, I’m looking forward to a simple eink photo frame product. Crucially, something that works out of the box and is shipping now (so: no Kickstarter, no need to write custom scripts, etc).
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#9https://imgur.com/a/NoTr8XX / https://hackaday.io/project/190478-hyepaper
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#10The problem right now is that while the screens have come down in price considerably, the driver hardware remains expensive and proprietary. If you want to build something for cheap, you'll be designing the PCB from scratch (as this author did).
Enter EPDIY, which brings wide support to a variety of screens using commodity hardware. It's still under development, but it's looking really promising: https://github.com/vroland/epdiy