Posted on GitHub:
"unfortunately I lost the Go source code"
Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
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Re: Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
#12What's unclear here is the refresh rate, but knowing the Kindle(s) this is hardly faster than 0.5fps
It looks like it has the ability to do partial refresh
Re: Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
#13What's unclear here is the refresh rate, but knowing the Kindle(s) this is hardly faster than 0.5fps
updated the gist: I'm getting close to 3-4 frames per second! this is only possible because of the partial screen refreshes since most pixels don't change between consecutive frames
Re: Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
#14I 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/
Re: Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
#15Posted on GitHub: "unfortunately I lost the Go source code"
Followed up with
"but it was pretty simple, like under 30 lines"
So simple in fact, that it wasn't quickly rewritten and added to GitHub...
Re: Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
#16Posted on GitHub: "unfortunately I lost the Go source code"
Followed up with "but it was pretty simple, like under 30 lines" So simple in fact, that it wasn't quickly rewritten and added to GitHub...
I should stop writing code in files like /tmp/x.go no matter how throwaway I think the code might be. I still have the linux/armv7 binary if anyone wants it lol.
Re: Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
#17What's unclear here is the refresh rate, but knowing the Kindle(s) this is hardly faster than 0.5fps
updated the gist: I'm getting close to 3-4 frames per second! this is only possible because of the partial screen refreshes since most pixels don't change between consecutive frames
Oh wow. That's nice!
Yes, if it does partial refreshes then the refresh rate might be way faster than I expected.
Awesome!
Re: Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
#18Posted on GitHub: "unfortunately I lost the Go source code"
Followed up with "but it was pretty simple, like under 30 lines" So simple in fact, that it wasn't quickly rewritten and added to GitHub...
This resonates funnily with "I hacked this together last night for fun" a bit down the page.
Re: Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
#19This would be far more interesting if you shared how, and did it on a platform that wasn't meant for short form content.
Writing a quick Github gist, sorry haha, I'll post a link here in a few minutes. Edit: https://gist.github.com/adtac/eb639d3c707b55a28f0ee9a420aa7e...
Ok, we've changed the URL above to that one from https://twitter.com/adtac_/status/1820127470613622950, which it includes.
Re: Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
#20[flagged]
Please don't do this here—it just adds noise to the threads.
As for that platform: we're all annoyed by the annoying things about it, and it has gotten significantly more so, but it remains a source that HN would be significantly worse without.