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not sure exactly how e-phoretic screens are driven, but I wonder if you could remove the controller entirely? have just a loose eink screen with a zif that you pass around
like this thing is 0.25mm thick https://www.adafruit.com/product/4262#technical-details
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That sounds more like a legacy style board game than an actual trading card game. Which seems to me like the better implementation of this technology, anything else due to its digital nature just feels like it is going to be exploited making any value disappear completely. I think this would be an amazing idea for a legacy style game, especially since it opens up the possibility of resetting the game and it really si…
Ah yeah. TCG is just a quick way to explain it to people so they get what I'm going for. I personally dislike the whole "rarity" aspect of TCGs, though it was fun when I was a kid. Living Card Games like Netrunner are more fun to play IMO. My elevator pitch usually goes something like: MTG meets Yu-gi-oh meets Pokemon (the RPG) meets Tamagotchi.
These were originally implemented as buttons that you could pin on your shirt. There was a game convention long ago where sometimes you'd find two random people wearing them have a "hey! Let's play a game" moment since it also advertised playing the game. Break out the dice that you've already got, sit down and play in a minute or two (with no weird rules you everything ran real fast).
Likewise, you could have the "this is the game" clipped on one's shirt and then playing a digital game with your selected character.
Edit: turns out someone had already posted about this widget called a "Pimoroni Badger" and it fits the bill nicely: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/badger-2040-w?variant=405...
That's very cool. Love seeing these types of things. If they were thinner and wider, I suspect that an almost unlimited number of uses could open up for them.
Konstantin Schubert has created a wider E-Ink Smart Screen: https://www.invisible-computers.com/ Also see his HN post: Feedback Welcome: I am developing an e-paper calendar as a consumer product (2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26216357
It is an eink smart screen. The calendar app supports Google calendar and anything that can provide an .ics event feed. I just added a new "Picture Frame" app, though admittedly enjoying your photos on black-and-white eink is a niche taste :D
https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale...
Disclaimer: I design and build these. And I'm also a big fan of jonahss work.
I have an idea for such an e-ink display. Are there pre-made e-ink displays out there with maybe a couple of buttons of input and maybe wifi for software update? I imagine it could be running something like Pico-W and have an e-ink display? Any ideas? Edit: turns out someone had already posted about this widget called a "Pimoroni Badger" and it fits the bill nicely: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/badger-2040-w?va…
https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale...
You can play your own content to it as an image, by serving it on an internet-accessible URL.
It can also render any website you point it to. (The results vary, it's a black-and-white display!)
And it has a built-in calendar app and picture frame app.
This is really cool. Sorry to change the topic a bit, but I have been thinking about adapting something like this for a screen that you can place on your desk or work bench to use it as a physical "away message" so that people know where you are when you are not at your desk (i.e. @lunch, @meeting, @microscope, etc..) Ideally, it would connect to wifi so that you can update it remotely.
If you build a small website that shows your status message, you could then point the smart screen to it and it will display your away message.
I have an idea for such an e-ink display. Are there pre-made e-ink displays out there with maybe a couple of buttons of input and maybe wifi for software update? I imagine it could be running something like Pico-W and have an e-ink display? Any ideas? Edit: turns out someone had already posted about this widget called a "Pimoroni Badger" and it fits the bill nicely: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/badger-2040-w?va…
For those interested in novel and quirky uses of e-ink displays, you might also want to see these: https://lightnote.cardonabits.com Disclaimer: I design and build these. And I'm also a big fan of jonahss work.
This is cool. I hope the cost of eink plummets so this is actually viable.