Comment by augusteo
13 days ago
Nice project. The $15 price point is genuinely impressive for something like this.
I've been curious about e-ink displays for a while but haven't taken the plunge. What's the refresh rate like in practice? And does it actually help you notice interesting posts you'd otherwise miss, or is it more of a fun desk decoration?
The refresh rate must be something like 20fps when scrolling the text of long posts. I’m not sure and haven’t measured.
While I’m working I glance at it from time to time and get a sense of the wide breadth of conversations going on at any moment.
> The $15 price point is genuinely impressive
That $15 price is only possible because AliExpress operates within a Chinese export system that is indirectly subsidised by the state. AliExpress benefits from significant Chinese government support.
You can get e-paper pricetags quite cheap. Then you can use https://openepaperlink.de/ and configure one of the tags to pull the HN RSS.