This looks neat at a first glance but who actually wants to read the newspaper standing up facing a wall? I personally prefer to do it sitting down in a comfortable sofa or outside on a park bench.
I think it’s more for the headline and aesthetic.
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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Yea, I sell a ready-to-use an eink calendar and the display is definitely the main cost driver. It’s about half of my BOM. That’s also why, admittedly, my calendar has a much smaller display than this newspaper. (It’s this: https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale... )
That's really nice, I think HN would love this if it was easy to hack and run custom software
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
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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!
You still need to in to the companion app because the device needs the online backend for computing the render. But on iOS you can log in with apple. And there is no need to pair with google calendar if you use the image url feature: https://www.invisible-computers.com/invisible-calendar/image... ——- Batteries drive up the cost for certification and shipping. I think a battery works better together with a bigger, mor…
> You still need to in to the companion app because the device needs the online backend for computing the render.
Right, but that could be fully in my network if i understand correctly.
> But on iOS you can log in with apple. And there is no need to pair with google calendar if you use the image url feature:
This works, but i'd really like a way to do this without any cloud-y features. As dumb as possible. Especially for low cost devices like this where i'm paranoid of it being "cheap because they sell my data" sort of thing.
> (Even though you can definitely hang my display up on the wall and if you don’t have a socket nearby, you can plug it into a battery pack)
This is exactly what i was hoping for! I don't mind buying the battery pack separately. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't hard wired to a wall plug, etc.
In the future if you could try to allocate space or hooks or anything to support this use case that would be amazing. Ie some little hooks on the back where a user could ziptie a battery back to it would be great!
I think i'm going to give one of these a try. If it works well for my headless use case i'd probably love a handful of these things, they're very close to what i've wanted for years. A lot of little low power displays around the house that work like picture frames. A hybrid to "modern life" and "old life" if you will. I love Eink
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
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Hmmmm, trying to see your point of view, what I would do differently.... If one is going to use plywood for the frame, maybe a nice "multi-ply" plywood (Europly, Apple Ply, etc.). The Japanese kids make speakers from plywood and love to show off the "plys" because they use the good multi-ply stuff. Frame could be cut with more CNC precision? (Looking at the inner cut in particular). Maybe the stand should be cut from…
Hi, those are nice ideas, thank you! The refreshes definitely only happen if pixels change - did I write something somewhere that suggested otherwise? If you let me know I can fix it :)
A comment about it polling every so many minutes or so. I misinterpreted that as refreshing.
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
#205Do e-ink screens require periodic refresh to keep the image? I was wondering if it's possible to load an image and remove power.
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#206And suddenly the Apple Vision Pro doesn't look expensive at all.
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#207Looks nice, but it's still just more news for the news addicted. Silly idea dump: How about: A 4k TV in form of a window, which displays a live stream of a 4k camera of various places in nature. Lets say, in the middle of the forest, or a beach in italy. To have a window into another place, for some calm and mindfulness.
You might be a customer for Bob Shaw's fictional 'slow glass':
Travelling through a remote area, they find a place that sells panes of slow glass. This is glass that light takes a long time to pass through, even years, so that a pane of this glass shows a scene from the past. People buy slow glass that has been placed in picturesque scenery so that later they can enjoy the view in their homes or workplaces.
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
#208This 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 disp…
Why doesn't it have a way to directly push an image to the screen like a $30 router from worst buy? It looks like the software to push an image to a display can be run on your own device but then you need an $80 box and if I read this right you need to pay $72 a year forever.
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
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Is that an eBook with custom software and a frame? The price point is indeed very tempting.
The screen is off-the shelf, but the rest is all custom, including the PCB that's driving the screen, the wooden frame and the brass back plate.
Quick question: brass looks fantastic but on a back plate..? Why that material choice? (I’m sure there was a good reason, just curious)
Re: 32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
#210I built a smaller, battery-powered version of this idea with Rust and ChatGPT: https://imgur.io/a/NoTr8XX / https://hackaday.io/project/190478-hyepaper
Thank you this is great, do you have the code in a repo?
Maybe I need a new project