Comment by kovac
8 months ago
I built this dashboard. The price curves and text are rendered locally from the microcontroller and painted pixel by pixel. Letters use raster fonts stored locally, price curves are generated on the fly. It can be done, it takes a bit of care. Mine only has ~400KB memory. It must be a lot easier on the Kindle, I think it runs Java even.
Thanks for sharing your project, it is very cool! I'll check it out and see if I can get it to work.
Kindle is very hackable if you're ready to endure some weird quirks. E.g. You can install Python on kindle or do custom software using various tools like Gcc, clang, Perl etc.
1: https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Python_on_Kindle
2: https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Hacks_Information#Ki...
Sure, if you run into issues, feel free to drop me an email. My address is on the home page.
Thanks for sharing the resources! Great to connect with fellow e-paper enthusiasts :)
...and if you're not ready for enduring weird quirks, just launch stuff out of Debian chroot within Xephyr. I've used Pidgin this way many years ago.