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I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

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Post by kelipso »

ryanckulp wrote: post #198
kelipso wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They should really clean up the phrasing because it sound so sketch, like they're locking device features for money, turns people off easily.

what do you think it should be called? for ~$15 optional one time bucks people get 24/7 access to the entire engineering team, me, prioritized feature dev, and can earn monthly payouts from our Creator Fund. we don’t charge a subscription, obviously i’m partial but this model has serves us well. and most of the developer edition fee goes right back to the community via bounties, perks, etc.

Developer Access or something like that, and put part of your comment in there. I would remove the word Unlock entirely, it implies you’re locking code, as opposed to providing a service.

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Post by spiralcoaster »

bluGill wrote: post #162
letsgethigh wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"hey Siri, set timer for washing machine"

And the timer goes off when you are in the shower - by the time you are done you forgot about the alarm. (I have more than once stopped an alarm I intended to just snooze)

Your comment reminds me of those infomercials where they try really hard to make something as simple as cooking spaghetti look like an unimaginable nightmare that no one could possibly accomplish

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Post by spiralcoaster »

Exoristos wrote: post #37
bengale wrote: post #6

I’m always surprised how much people seem to want to constantly know the weather.

Strong correlation with those who go outside.

Seems like if you were going outside often, you wouldn't need an e-ink display to tell you the weather because you'd be outside... experiencing it

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Post by spiralcoaster »

lbotos wrote: post #141
bengale wrote: post #6

I’m always surprised how much people seem to want to constantly know the weather.

Do you own property? Does it flood? Do you live in a place where a rapidly forming storm may cause flooding? I was weather-status neutral until I bought a house that has flooding challenges. Knowing that enough rain that could trigger flooding helps me avoid surprise cleanups and property damage.

So what do you do with the information that your house is about to flood? Do you have a special flood prevention technique that you can only put into action when you know the rain is coming?

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Post by normie3000 »

bpmct wrote: post #145

For those on a budget, I highly recommend checking eBay for old e-ink readers. Many of them can be rooted and are by far the most affordable way to get e-ink (plus compute). The Nook Simple Touch is one of my favorites

How is the Nook Simple Touch dev scene these days? Is there any functional alternative to a very old Android version?

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Post by chrneu »

fanatic2pope wrote: post #121

Cool project. I solved a problem (not really the same problem as this, mind you) for my family using a much older technology. I bought a big pane of glass from the hardware store, built a wooden frame for it with a shelf for an eraser and dry markers. I hung it up in the kitchen and now when we need to leave "sticky" notes to each other we just write on it. We keep our shopping list on it, we write small poems and dr…

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Post by hawksley »

ThrowawayR2 wrote: post #87
NikxDa wrote: post #2

This is super cool, and I wish something like this existed at my place, as it enables information sharing without the need for phones/actual screens that shine in your face when the lights are low or tempt you to doomscroll. That said, the large primary display this uses is $2000. That's very hard to justify for any "normal" household, and that's without any mounts, backend, services etc.

There are a couple of options for a large, non-backlit, low power display that are less expensive than the e-ink monitor they're using. One is the Samsung EM32DX, a 32" color e-ink digital sign for <$1300 (<$1000 if you can find it on sale) but it has a long refresh time. The other is the SVD rE 32" reflective LCD monitor for ~$1000, but it needs to be in brightly lit rooms because of its low contrast.

In my post, I talk about how QHD was not high enough resolution for usable text rendering at 32". The SVD monitor is even lower resolution, just 1080p. I'd love to see a true 4k SVD product but I'm guessing it'd be even more expensive than the Mira Pro.

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Post by hawksley »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #159

Has anyone solved the e-paper ghosting issue? Do you just have to set a complete screen re-render every few seconds or something? Fwiw, there are 13-inch eInk displays for ~$140 ( https://www.waveshare.com/13.3inch-e-paper-hat-b.htm?sku=272... ) which you can pair with a Raspberry Pi (~$40) or ESP32 (~$15) and battery (~$10). Smaller displays are cheaper if you don't need all that real estate. You can then use AI vib…

The Mira Pro rendering engine is very good. Little ghosting and I only have it refresh the entire screen at the top of the hour.

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Post by hawksley »

dddgghhbbfblk wrote: post #93

This is really cool. With a newborn in the home I've been really thinking about projects like this recently. When you have a newborn things are so busy and hectic that it's easy to get overloaded and for things to slip through the cracks so I've been really wishing I had a dashboard like this somewhere to remind me that we need to take the dogs out or show how long it's been since the baby last ate or whatnot.

We have two kids under three and yes, it has helped a lot with managing the cognitive burden of everything we have to keep track of.
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