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ReMarkable Paper Tablet
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Re: ReMarkable Paper Tablet
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Will you show your working prototypes at CES then?
we went to CES this year to see if there was any reason for us to go, but based on that we decided not to. it's insanely huge and hard to get any kind of exposure, even if people knew about us beforehand. but seeing is believing, especially with this product, videos doesn't do it justice imho. so we need some way of getting it into the hands of people, probably some kind of ambassadors that have some reach and a lot…
Please keep us up to date! This is definitely a "try before you buy" sort of product for myself.
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Again, I can't discuss too many technical details. But yes, it's an i.MX6SL, I thought we mentioned that on the web page. And there are actually several drivers for the EPDC available. Two from freescale for the imx6 and imx7 (though there are some other improvements in the _v2, apart from imx7 support). There's also another one written by lab126, but I'm not sure if they actually use it. there's also some minor vari…
> it's an i.MX6SL, I thought we mentioned that on the web page. Your website only says: "Processor 1 GHz ARM A9 CPU" > Two from freescale for the imx6 and imx7 Ok, but you are using imx6. > There's also another one written by lab126 Nope. That's the same driver from Freescale. You can download the kindle source to verify. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=... > then you have the u-boot drive…
there are two epdc drivers in the kindle gpl releases. the source for the lab126 one is only available in the tarballs you linked (named mxc_epdc_fb_lab126.c).
as for the waveforms, I'm talking about support for the REAGL (sic) waveforms. grep for it in the linux source in the tarballs you linked to.
and e ink did not have a panel that met our requirements, and designed a new one after we talked with them.
edit; just to be clear, we don't use the lab126 driver, it was just an example of there being more drivers for the imx6 generation epdc.
Re: ReMarkable Paper Tablet
#94I really, really want something like this but I'm too scared to pre-order one until a bunch of reviews come out first.
So was I, but you can apparently cancel up until the shipping date.
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#95Looks really cool. Hope you guys nail it. I'm hoping to see more and more e-ink offerings. For myself, I would like a 50" curved e-ink monitor for work, black and white is fine. I know e-ink has terrible refresh rates, but I'm working with code and consoles 90% of the time. I could put web browsers and other stuff on another monitor.
+1000
An 16'' uncurved 20kg e-ink monitor with 100ms latency to work outside and I give you my car.
Re: ReMarkable Paper Tablet
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
it won't take many weeks (or days) from we release the device until our solution is reverse engineered, no matter how much we lock it down. but until then we want to keep as much as possible secret. as for hackable device; we don't intend to release the magic sauce that makes the latency goes down. what I meant with hackable is that I've wanted an e-paper device which I could run my own code on, without having to loo…
> we don't intend to release the magic sauce that makes the latency goes down. Ok. > what I meant with hackable is that I've wanted an e-paper device which I could run my own code on, without having to look for security holes in the software running on it. If your software is closed source, then I don't understand how anyone other than you effectively (or practically) would be able to solve or fix any security holes.…
> If your software is closed source, then I don't understand how anyone other than you effectively (or practically) would be able to solve or fix any security holes.
I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. I meant that for pretty much all current e-paper devices you aren't able to get access to run your own code unless you find a security hole that you can exploit to gain access.
And sorry about the strawman, it wasn't intended that way. I think the rest of the comment before that answers your original question.
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#97Is this the NoteSlate guys again?
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#98What I would consider the killer features for this, if present (as in, if guaranteed these, I would buy it):
- The ability to use it as a drawing tablet for another computer. It's already a perfectly good large touch-sensitive surface meant for drawing, why should I need to buy a second one for Illustrator?
- ssh, and some way to connect an external keyboard. E-paper is excellent for a terminal, and this is big enough to be useful.
- Some way to use purely as a display, whether by some plug or by X-server broadcasting via SSH or some form of screen-sharing client. Most non-video uses of a computer (if color is not crucial) work just fine on e-paper.
- The ability to turn off cloud-sync. Sorry, but I'm not sending you everything I write. For some people that might even go deeper than a personal choice (NDAs, if they work on anything proprietary, depending on how they're phrased).
So, basically, the ability to use it for its components and not just the singular agglomeration of them that you envision. I put that above even the ability to write your own software for it.
In other words, if ReMarkable has the following, I would have already pre-ordered, even if it's got nothing else:
- an e-paper touch display
- plus Wi-Fi, USB, HDMI, etc.
- the ability to disable automatic cloud sync
- with four built-in programs:
-- ssh
-- drivers-for-use-as-drawing-tablet
-- VNC client
-- The reader/drawing program demonstrated in the video, for use alone
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#99I was sold until this line: "Your thoughts, whether they’re words or sketches, are instantly synced to reMarkable’s cloud service" Imagine for a company only five years back to literally say that your thoughts are sent to their server. I welcome any product that understand we need less distractions and less help from so-called AI, but there are many reasons to be cautious about this one (preorder, latency claim and l…
Yup. I want to be able to run the cloud service on my own hardware.
Now, if they offered actually-secure client-side encryption (with no backdoors or sidechannels to strip said encryption, unlike e.g. Mozilla do with their accounts), then I might still be interested, but I'd still rather run it on my own hosts.