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Does he mention a price or part number at some point? I'm quite a good way in, and he hasn't mentioned anything, and the description is empty. EDIT: I see the description now, they're called Hanshow Stellar and sell for $20-$25 a piece. Not the price point I thought of when I heard "cheap", but eh.
Most people I know who have played with them just picked ‘em up at their local Walmart…
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#22As a hobby photographer who mostly shoots black-and-white film, readily available info about generating grayscale images on eInk displays is intriguing from an artistic perspective.
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pudn
How did this get downvoted? I am the author of the original article and that IS the site I meant!!!
8051 is the cockroach of embedded systems. Bizarrely resilient, and absolutely disgusting. My very first firmware job (erm, internship) was taking a Cortex-M0+ and making it serve as a pin-for-pin replacement for an 8051. Many crimes against software humanity were committed.
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#25I wish there was a self-contained e-ink 10 inch screen that would just sit on my network and accept URLs to display in sequence. Possibly with an equivalent to a Raspberry Pi 3 to SSH into.
https://soldered.com/product/inkplate-10-9-7-e-paper-board-c... You can do that with this.
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Most people I know who have played with them just picked ‘em up at their local Walmart…
Hm, how much do they sell there for?