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32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)

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Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)

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Post by sgt »

Gasp0de wrote: post #23
alexandernl wrote: post #2

I'm a news junkie, and the power and allure of a newspaper's front page have always fascinated me. When I stumbled upon an article written by a Google engineer who had built an e ink device with the front page of his favorite daily newspaper prominently displayed on his wall, I was a bit jealous. So, I worked with a e-ink company called Visionect in Slovenia to build a version that comes shipped ready to put on your…

For 2500 bucks I can probably pay the person who delivers my daily newspaper to come inside and hang it on the wall for me for at least 10 years.

For 2500 bucks I can build you a 32" ink display. Just tell me which newspaper you would like and which date it should show.

Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)

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Post by westurner »

alexandernl wrote: post #2

I'm a news junkie, and the power and allure of a newspaper's front page have always fascinated me. When I stumbled upon an article written by a Google engineer who had built an e ink device with the front page of his favorite daily newspaper prominently displayed on his wall, I was a bit jealous. So, I worked with a e-ink company called Visionect in Slovenia to build a version that comes shipped ready to put on your…

Why do larger e-ink screens cost more to produce?

Something like this for (e.g. Kanban card-based) project management would be cool, though the contrast at a distance.

The PineNote is a 9" eInk development device; 3287cm/3 for $400. https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineNote

But it's not going to look as nice as a 32" e-ink display on the wall.

Is there a yellow backlight, or a blueish backlight?

Is there a low-cost way to make a solar roof that varies in solar reflectivity? FWIU e-ink only requires voltage to cause the e-ink particles to flip over? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Ink

Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)

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Post by thih9 »

paulcole wrote: post #122
hau wrote: post #78

This screen comes with a subscription based cloud CMS. The only way to pass image to this display semms to be through a proprietary application which is this so called CMS. There are no other connectivity options mentioned. You are unable to use this screen if: - subscription is not paid - company decides to terminate your subscription under any condition of your contract - company decides to sunset software or a pro…

That’s OK though right? As long as you know that going in you can decide if it’s worth it for you. Personally, I’d rather have something that works out of the box in exchange for a bit of money and risk that the company will go out of business one day than something that I have to spend time tinkering with to get and keep working.

> As long as you know that going in you can decide if it’s worth it for you.

But it looks like there's no way to know that going in? I have checked the product page and found no information that the CMS is paid.

Based on the current description ("Comes with personal online portal to set up and change the content of your screen." [1]) I wouldn't expect an additional subscription.

[1]: https://projecteink.com/products/e-ink-newspaper-art-display...

Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)

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Post by MissTake »

hnarn wrote: post #145

€2,783 ($3,025) for this might seem like a lot, until you realize that the price of the 31.2" screen[1] alone is at least $1,200 + $200 shipping within the US. Wow. [1]: https://buy-lcd.com/products/largest-312-inch-e-ink-big-scre...

It is a lot. Period.

I could pay for this and notice very little difference in my financial life.

But I balk heavily at the $3k price tag and ask myself “what do I _really_ get out of this?”

The answer is “nothing of value except a reminder of how much I spent on something of very little life value.

Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)

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Post by jayvoordemensen »

hau wrote: post #78

This screen comes with a subscription based cloud CMS. The only way to pass image to this display semms to be through a proprietary application which is this so called CMS. There are no other connectivity options mentioned. You are unable to use this screen if: - subscription is not paid - company decides to terminate your subscription under any condition of your contract - company decides to sunset software or a pro…

Hey! It's Jay, I'm a journalist and developer and I've done most of the work on the front and backend of Project E Ink. Happy to answer your questions!

So what we've done: we're indeed running our own Visionect servers these devices connect to. We've build a friendly and news-centered frontend so the display shows news, updates on new editions (or a user-set timeframe), or forgets about newspapers altogether and displays HTML on any URL you provide.

If we were to sunset or go MIA or anything else unforeseen and unlikely you will still have an awesome display that you can configure to connect to any other Visionect server in the world. And indeed: these servers are Docker-images you can deploy yourself https://hub.docker.com/r/visionect/visionect-server-v3/

So the deal is: a screen and our software. If you don't like our software you'll still have an awesome screen that'll work as long as there's Docker and TCP/IP ;)

Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)

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Post by aembleton »

brentcetinich wrote: post #116

I have the same thing, gitlab job scheduled every 12 hours refreshes it using the visionect docker image, I have google calendar at the bottom, and currency exchange over the top left, localized weather on the right, countdowns to holidays, F1 schedules ect... I decreased the heartbeat timer and battery lasts about 2 months. I can't find an asian or european news paper that gives a good high res front page like the N…

Would be good to be able to build one from Google News.

Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)

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Post by unshavedyak »

konschubert wrote: post #86
JonChesterfield wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can it display arbitrary stuff? Maybe whatever is streaming over the network?

You can point it to any url on the web, with a JPEG or a PNG of the right resolution. It will poll that URL a few times per minute and display the image.

Can you disable the online integration features? Ie no google login, just be dumb and display what i tell it?

Second question, any thoughts on if this could run off of battery? Eink tends to be so low power, i'd love this type of product with a wallhang and periodic charge. Thoughts?

The price point is great!

Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)

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Post by [deleted] »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #140
mechhacker wrote: post #85

Would be interesting to me to have something like this, but in landscape mode, and with slowly changing blueprints of aircraft, rockets, ships, cars... Example: https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Portals/14/EasyGalleryImage...

That would be cool. And simple to do in Python with a small display. There are a number of projects on GitHub that can be easily modified to pull this off.

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