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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 veegee »

jayvoordemensen wrote: post #155
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 disp…

If Docker is in any way _required_, it's still a dealbreaker.

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

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Post by mholm »

Hmm, I wonder how much of this could be recreated with a Remarkable 2 or equivalent tablet. Build a nice decorative enclosure with the charging port embedded in the frame, it has wifi out of the box, and you can change the screensaver with scp when it's awake. Perhaps just set a cron job to grab the latest image every 24 hours from a designated url? Obviously much smaller, but you get a tablet out of the deal too, at 10-15% of the cost.

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

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konschubert wrote: post #101
franciscop wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

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Post by konschubert »

Arn_Thor wrote: post #209
konschubert wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Plastic is actually more expensive in small numbers… and I want the thing to have a bit of a low-tech, retro feel. Plastic wouldn’t work for that.

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

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Post by javajosh »

veegee wrote: post #211
jayvoordemensen wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

If Docker is in any way _required_, it's still a dealbreaker.

That's an extremist view.

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

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Post by c0balt »

veegee wrote: post #211
jayvoordemensen wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

If Docker is in any way _required_, it's still a dealbreaker.

Docker is not magic, just extract the contents an OCI image[1] and run it with your favorite container runtime, like cri-o[2]. Or use the docker or OCI inage with podman[0].

And if containers are the problem then unpack the image into it's contents, take the binary, relink it and run it on bare metal.

[0]: https://podman.io/ [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73961256/how-to-convert-... [2]: https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/tree/main

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

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Post by smolder »

westurner wrote: post #152
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 t…

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

Last I knew the bulk of cost for e-ink displays was just due to the patent holders decision to charge a lot, which is disappointing, but can't go on that much longer...

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

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Post by mym1990 »

sandworm101 wrote: post #187
junon wrote: post #166

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I don't think I'm your target demographic but I always appreciate folks who make their hardware accessible like this. Thank you :)

Who is the target demo? I'm old enough to have had actual newspapers appear on my doorstep. I ever saw anyone mount them on a wall, at least not in a private home. I would think a table/tablet orientation would be more appealing than an awkward wall mount. Is this thing meant to be art, a bit of faux-nostalgia decoration?

Harry Potter fans possibly :)

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

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Post by slily »

If it could navigate the rest of the pages of the newspaper and was guaranteed to last at least 10+ years or had a long-term warranty provided by an established company, then I would consider buying this product as an alternative to traditional wall art.
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