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Modos Paper Monitor – Open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit

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Re: Modos Paper Monitor – Open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit

#62

Post by arkensaw »

I'm disappointed by how expensive these things still are. Smartphone size eink panels are so cheap that every supermarket has thousands of them as price display panels. but try and find epaper bigger than 10" and you'll be paying $350+ just for a panel that does nothing by itself.

Re: Modos Paper Monitor – Open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit

#63

Post by porridgeraisin »

camgunz wrote: post #51
porridgeraisin wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> in the GUI version or in the TUI version, in a terminal like Kitty. I want to try some monochrome UI, but that amber is definitely not my taste. Let me see if there is a "paper-like" theme, or maybe I can make one myself.

I (re)built it w/ a little script I call roygvim [0] -- here's the source [1] [0]: https://github.com/camgunz/roygvim [1]: https://pastebin.com/b0LRpjUC

My attempt:

https://images2.imgbox.com/16/79/Tz7rMe2c_o.png

  colorscheme paper
  
  highlight Normal guibg=#f7f5f0 guifg=#000000 gui=NONE
  
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Re: Modos Paper Monitor – Open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit

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Post by alex-a-soto »

porridgeraisin wrote: post #63
camgunz wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I (re)built it w/ a little script I call roygvim [0] -- here's the source [1] [0]: https://github.com/camgunz/roygvim [1]: https://pastebin.com/b0LRpjUC

My attempt: https://images2.imgbox.com/16/79/Tz7rMe2c_o.png colorscheme paper highlight Normal guibg=#f7f5f0 guifg=#000000 gui=NONE highlight CursorLine guibg=#f0efea gui=NONE highlight CursorColumn guibg=#f0efea gui=NONE highlight Comment guifg=#777777 gui=italic highlight Constant guifg=#333333 gui=underline highlight String guifg=#333333 gui=italic highlight Character guifg=#333333 gui=italic highlight Number guif…

Thanks for sharing! Would it be alright if I try it out during our livestream this week?

Re: Modos Paper Monitor – Open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit

#65

Post by porridgeraisin »

alex-a-soto wrote: post #64
porridgeraisin wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My attempt: https://images2.imgbox.com/16/79/Tz7rMe2c_o.png colorscheme paper highlight Normal guibg=#f7f5f0 guifg=#000000 gui=NONE highlight CursorLine guibg=#f0efea gui=NONE highlight CursorColumn guibg=#f0efea gui=NONE highlight Comment guifg=#777777 gui=italic highlight Constant guifg=#333333 gui=underline highlight String guifg=#333333 gui=italic highlight Character guifg=#333333 gui=italic highlight Number guif…

Thanks for sharing! Would it be alright if I try it out during our livestream this week?

Yes sure. public domain.

Re: Modos Paper Monitor – Open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit

#67

Post by alex-a-soto »

RossBencina wrote: post #31

Looks like my post got a second chance. I'm not affiliated with the project, but I am an interested e-ink monitor enthusiast. You may be interested to know that this project is a fully open project, all source code, verilog, algorithm documentation and hardware design files are on github: https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider https://gitlab.com/zephray/caster

Three years ago, I posted about modding a ThinkPad T480 into an e-ink laptop: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26245563

That turned into a community project and eventually into building our own FPGA-based e-ink display controller to improve refresh speed and reduce ghosting.

The result is a dev kit and monitor: open hardware, supports 6–13" monochrome and color e-ink panels over HDMI or USB-C, up to 75 Hz with sub-100 ms latency, and includes a C API.

Hardware, firmware, docs and schematics: https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider

Re: Modos Paper Monitor – Open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit

#68

Post by Palomides »

alex-a-soto wrote: post #67
RossBencina wrote: post #31

Looks like my post got a second chance. I'm not affiliated with the project, but I am an interested e-ink monitor enthusiast. You may be interested to know that this project is a fully open project, all source code, verilog, algorithm documentation and hardware design files are on github: https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider https://gitlab.com/zephray/caster

Three years ago, I posted about modding a ThinkPad T480 into an e-ink laptop: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26245563 That turned into a community project and eventually into building our own FPGA-based e-ink display controller to improve refresh speed and reduce ghosting. The result is a dev kit and monitor: open hardware, supports 6–13" monochrome and color e-ink panels over HDMI or USB-C, up to 75 Hz with su…

I'm probably getting one for desktop use, but I'm also curious for other use cases, what's the power usage like? while idle or doing high frame rate video?

Re: Modos Paper Monitor – Open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit

#69

Post by alex-a-soto »

Palomides wrote: post #68
alex-a-soto wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Three years ago, I posted about modding a ThinkPad T480 into an e-ink laptop: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26245563 That turned into a community project and eventually into building our own FPGA-based e-ink display controller to improve refresh speed and reduce ghosting. The result is a dev kit and monitor: open hardware, supports 6–13" monochrome and color e-ink panels over HDMI or USB-C, up to 75 Hz with su…

I'm probably getting one for desktop use, but I'm also curious for other use cases, what's the power usage like? while idle or doing high frame rate video?

Great! The board uses about 1-1.5W under continuous use with no OS/kernel power optimizations.
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