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You, on the other hand, sound like a very not-sad person.
The Invisible Screen – An E-Paper Smart Display
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#12So only usable with their own app that may disappear with the company in a year? That sound like potential e-waste in a short amount of time.
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#13I bought one of these for my house recently and it’s been great. We wrote custom software for our own info display, straightforward since you just serve images over an HTTP endpoint. I’m sure there are cheaper ways to achieve this result but it’s nice to have a prebuilt package like this. My only complaint is that the custom software requires using a proxy server managed by the device creator which is bad for longevity, hope that changes eventually.
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I don't use calendar or email that much. When I do, Google does fine.
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#15I really want to do this with a pi zero w, but with a larger screen. 7.5” is barely larger than a door placard.
You can find waveshare panels that are bigger, 13.3" for around the price of that thing. They are not that hard to drive.
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#16A lot of little projects like this that end up going bust because of the cost of running the business.
Still cool that projects like this are launched.
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#17Have done the same with a rooted kindle... and you can get them for 20$ on the bay. The price really seems a bit high for a novelty item.
How do you serve your calendar on it?
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#18I don’t really understand how it is still trendy to pretend that everyone uses Google for email and calendar. I get that the SF crowd was all about it, but if the last few years have taught us anything it is that there’s more to the techie world than VC free money startups. I reckon there are far more people who need this and who might buy this who are using Outlook/Office 365 either alone or in some combination than…
I’d imagine the creator uses Google calendar, made it for themself, and then decided others might like to have a pre-built version. “Trendy” probably doesn’t have anything to do with it.
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#19From the creator:
"It’s not open source and you need the backend for it to work."
They alluded to open sourcing the software/API if the business ever goes under, but obviously that'd not guaranteed.
Such a shame, I'd be willing to pay more for a product that was actually open.
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