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Re:The Open Book Project: open-hardware e-ink eBook reader by userbinator on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @01:41AM (#28613389)
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003257239404.html

If you look around you'll find 13.3" panels at less than half that price, i.e. without the "maker markup".

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Re:The Open Book Project: open-hardware e-ink eBook reader by dheera on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @07:16PM (#28623272)
Damn near impossible to use though if you can't design PCBs and have surgical hands for surface mount soldering ...

The WaveShare one comes with a Pi HAT (sadly with headers soldered on though so I've had to desolder and resolder other headers to them)

And if you get the voltages even slightly wrong you'll fry the display and maybe a few more ...

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