ESP8266 ePaper WiFi Display Kit Runs for Months on a Charge

Re:ESP8266 ePaper WiFi Display Kit Runs for Months on a Charge by mosselman on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @08:24AM (#16014597)

This sounds interesting. Could you shed some light in what hacking a kindle entails? Could I hook up my micro controller to the kindle and use the kindles display? Could I add gpio ports to the kindle and use it as a micro controller?

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Re:ESP8266 ePaper WiFi Display Kit Runs for Months on a Charge by maxkrieger on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @09:43AM (#16014986)

Check out using the Kindle as a raspberry pi display:

http://ponnuki.net/2012/09/kindleberry-pi/

https://maxogden.com/kindleberry-wireless.html

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Re:ESP8266 ePaper WiFi Display Kit Runs for Months on a Charge by mosselman on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @09:56AM (#16015045)

Thanks for the links, this looks very cool!

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Re:ESP8266 ePaper WiFi Display Kit Runs for Months on a Charge by rubatuga on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @02:15PM (#16017140)

Here’s a link to a video I made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oel08SDFyIY

Of course, you can skip the server section and make the IP address point to your local server. Some caveats are you need to use pngcrush to turn the image into a format that the kindle can use.

Link to GitHub: https://github.com/yoonsikp/weather-display

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Re:ESP8266 ePaper WiFi Display Kit Runs for Months on a Charge by pingec on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @09:23AM (#16014868)

Sure. The kindle runs linux and has a large e-ink display and battery integrated for a good price. You can do many things that you cannot do on a micro controller. For low level stuff you can hook up an esp8266 through wifi.

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