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Comment by kovac

8 months ago

I work on e-paper displays. Are you looking for something built with a Kindle?

This project of mine is similar to what you described with a power down mode. The power down and wake up can be automated. I'm looking to build a small business around such projects. Not sure how viable it is.

https://www.asciimx.com/projects/e-reader/

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stavros  8 months ago

It does seem pretty viable, TRMNL are pretty popular:

https://usetrmnl.com

I made some stuff of mine for that display too, but the easiest way is to just use TRMNL's firmware, as it supports autoupdates and a few other nice features.

Here's mine:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/making-a-trmnl-device/

Plus this:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/making-the-timeframe/

And a few more things I never wrote about.

The Kindle project is just because I have a few Kindles lying around, so I might as well use them!

  • kovac  8 months ago

    That's beautiful, thanks for sharing. I was wondering what may be the best way to do frames. Custom frames, here in Singapore, are a bit expensive relative to the rest of the parts.

    • stavros  8 months ago

      3D printing is one good way, the other way I used is just to get a frame from IKEA and 3D print the inside white bit to my exact dimensions, which worked beautifully.

      I should post that build too, with some photos, I really like it.