Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Hacking Together an E-ink Dashboard

healeycodes.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

91–92 of 92 posts

Re: Hacking Together an E-ink Dashboard

#91

Post by Vrondi »

Cerium wrote: post #19
amelius wrote: post #3

> I realized I was asking Google Assistant the same questions over and over again. Like What’s the current weather? or What’s on my calendar for today? So I set out to build a small dashboard for my Raspberry Pi that I could check instead. Why not use a widget on the home-screen of your phone?

I ask Google Assistant the weather every night just to get it to turn on the little LEDs. They light up the room enough to see where I am walking.

Gee, I have a super cheap plug in motion detector night light that does this function for less than $10.

Re: Hacking Together an E-ink Dashboard

#92

Post by godelski »

coob wrote: post #74
luka-birsa wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So far 100% of HN articles re: E Ink contain a comment like this. Sadly it is highly unlikely that you will get something like this at an acceptable price point. We ( https://www.visionect.com/ ) have been making non-ebook based E Ink solutions for a decade now. Except for Joan, our room booking solution ( https://getjoan.com ), we have not found a customer application that could survive the low-volume incurred high…

Love what you guys are doing with Joan. I strongly believe there's a place in the market for displays that don't feel like displays. I don't think there's much need for interaction, but passive emitters of relevant, useful, hyper local information that feel like a wall feature or design piece rather than screen could have high success rate. I built a Smart Mirror for this purpose. It was mostly a mirror, in a nice wo…

I have a few solutions for you:

1) Your monitor doesn't need to be the size of your mirror. Just the size of the display content.

2) Add a motion control or other type of sensor to turn on and off the backlight.

Post reply on HN