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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by Debonnys on Friday April 10, 2020 @06:02AM (#22831510)
This is awesome!

However as the discussion from earlier today shows (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827833), it is still very expensive.

The display used in this article costs about $1500 (https://shopkits.eink.com/product/31-2%CB%9D-monochrome-epap...). Which is a bit too high for me to want to make something similar for myself.

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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by joi_de_vivre on Friday April 10, 2020 @03:11PM (#22836340)
Smaller e-ink displays are astronomically cheaper--I wonder if connecting several of them and then rastering the pdf would look much different?
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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by untog on Friday April 10, 2020 @03:32PM (#22836525)
The joins would have to very seamless. The visual presentation is the whole point of this thing, so you wouldn't want to ruin that.
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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by joi_de_vivre on Friday April 10, 2020 @05:04PM (#22837349)
These guys make it seem nice: https://www.visionect.com/blog/tiling-eink-displays/. It would probably be a pain to set up, though.
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