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Re:Show HN: Low-power Kindle-based dashboard by jcun4128 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @06:50AM (#25940719)
$100? hmm this price may not be that bad though, considering the display seems to be the most expensive aspect and I'm not finding a similar price/size on Amazon.

One thing I want to learn/address personally is a charging circuit so I'd rather build it myself. Still it is nice to know this is out there ready to go.

Also I have to use these ESP01's I bought haha. The code itself I imagine wouldn't be difficult eg. an http get request firing at whatever interval to your own local/remote endpoint. Would have to see about the ESP driver part to display to eInk.

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Re:Show HN: Low-power Kindle-based dashboard by jpgleeson on Thursday January 28, 2021 @10:56AM (#25943829)
The price definitely seems great for the size of the display, but it might be worth looking at the Waveshare e-paper displays if you want to do something a bit more DIY.
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Re:Show HN: Low-power Kindle-based dashboard by jcun4128 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:09AM (#25944058)
Yeah those look great. I'm hoping they have a built in driver or whatever and you just send the display data as serial/i2c or something.
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Re:Show HN: Low-power Kindle-based dashboard by dandep on Thursday January 28, 2021 @12:09PM (#25944983)
Yes they have a peripheral mode with its own commands

https://inkplate.readthedocs.io/en/latest/peripheral-mode.ht...

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