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Re:Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor by jschwartzi on Saturday December 26, 2020 @01:56AM (#25541912)
Yeah this is why a lot of battery-powered electronic shelf labels use LCD. E-Ink's product is great but they're impossible to actually build into a working product line because their terms are so odious.
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Re:Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor by girvo on Saturday December 26, 2020 @05:31AM (#25542567)
Even trying to purchase one as a hacker to use with a Pi to create a “modern day” HP 200LX palm-top required so much legal complexity bullshit and painful terms that it literally wasn’t possible.

I could buy the part on the grey market from China, but the documentation was literally non-existent (as in, there was zero, none. At least from the seller I wanted it from).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_200LX

Does anyone have any suggestions for a screen that would fit this sort of use-case? The UI/UX I planned on being a straight Linux TTY1 to begin with.

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Re:Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor by rcoder on Saturday December 26, 2020 @11:24AM (#25544342)
If you're online interested in limited quantities, this Sharp display might well fit the bill:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/4694

It's a "memory LCD", which has very low no power drain when idle, but has an LCD's refresh speed (i.e., fast enough to display video).

You can also get some decently-documented eInk boards from Waveshare in 1" to 13" sizes, though the costs are definitely too high for anything but one-off Maker projects:

https://www.waveshare.com/product/displays/e-paper.htm

You may also find the PaperTTY project interesting for your TUI:

https://github.com/joukos/PaperTTY

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