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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 yunusabd »

konschubert wrote: post #39
yunusabd wrote: post #27

Boldly expanding the definition of "art" ;) Reminds me of the eink calendar concept that has been bouncing around the web for some years [1]. There's also this project [2] based on the same concept. It seems to me though that these kinds of projects are always held back by the exorbitant costs of decently sized eink displays. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KDkFgOHZ5I [2] https://github.com/speedyg0nz/MagInkCal

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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Post by yunusabd »

w-m wrote: post #41
yunusabd wrote: post #27

Boldly expanding the definition of "art" ;) Reminds me of the eink calendar concept that has been bouncing around the web for some years [1]. There's also this project [2] based on the same concept. It seems to me though that these kinds of projects are always held back by the exorbitant costs of decently sized eink displays. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KDkFgOHZ5I [2] https://github.com/speedyg0nz/MagInkCal

Buying 455[1] of these and hanging them next to each other would be a nice art project. Alas, I'm lacking the $1.1M, and the space to hang them. [1] https://www.freedomforum.org/todaysfrontpages/

I think that's the wrong link, but I get the idea. Actually it might qualify as art even more, because in terms of functionality it would be borderline useless.

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

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Post by Pyramus »

swores wrote: post #45
Pyramus wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay, then please propose a concrete example with costs of labor, premium for print subscription etc. Happy to be proven wrong, but USD 2500 seems unrealistic.

I've just done that in reply to your previous comment, but will add here: they said "pay the person who delivers my daily newspaper", so it's $2500 on top of an existing delivery, not $2500 including paying for a new subscription & deliveries. edit: oops I noticed the other comment I replied to wasn't you, but anyway - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36629620

No worries, appreciate your concrete calculation.

I would argue it's just one more convenient assumption that leads us away from a realistic estimation.

It seems to me USD 2500 is an idealistic best case scenario.

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

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Post by duckqlz »

What an amazing project. I will be copying or becoming a customer in the coming weeks. Lots of comments about the high price, I do wish large e-ink displays would come down in price the but for ~$3k this will look good on my office wall , how could I resist. It’s art it is not just tech.

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

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Post by konschubert »

yunusabd wrote: post #51
konschubert wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

You can point it to any url that serves an image of the right resolution. This way, you can render your own content.

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

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Post by zauguin »

alexandernl wrote: post #37
cydmax wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is absolutely worth it! The Visionect display require a subscription to run properly: https://www.visionect.com/software/ . 60 Euro / year to run a display that I paid almost 1k for is not for private use. I guess that's why the price for the 32 inch display is so high, the subscription is priced in.

We built our own CMS, so no need for a subscription

Could you give a few more details on this? While the 32'' screen is a bit too expensive for me, I would probably find interesting usecases for he 16'' version if there weren't the subscription requirement. I don't mind writing my own CMS as long as that's possible.

What are the requirements to make a system work with these? Do you at the end stream bitmaps to the device? Something else? Is there a documented interface?

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

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Post by p10jkle »

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3SYn_SXIAYAIlI?format=jpg&name=...

I actually replicated this myself, with one extra feature; I got the screen framed . The 'trick' is that there's no glass section of the frame, the wood just boxes the screen and hides the fact that the bezel is not all the same width. This only cost another £100 at a framer, and I really recommend it.

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