E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Raspberry Pi

Re:E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Rasp... by chadd on Sunday October 03, 2021 @09:26PM (#28742055)

i bought the 6" display from eink.com to build a small personal art project - an infinite scrolling procedurally generated landscape based on this project - https://github.com/LingDong-/shan-shui-inf

A few gotchas:

1. some of these eink boards are hard to procure as a consumer. the vendors want you to be a company

2. the driver boards are purchased separately, are definitely required, and sometimes have windows software (vs easy to use rasp-pi drivers)

3. support is often difficult or from the OEM so english-language communication can be difficult.

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Re:E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Rasp... by dmitrygr on Friday October 08, 2021 @04:40AM (#28797032)

I had the same idea a few weeks back. Until i tried it. the javascript there is VERY slow. on an overclocked r-pi zero in chrome it takes > 5 minutes to render one. A few min of r-pi 0 time (1.9W) will kill batteries fast...

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Re:E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Rasp... by adiM on Sunday October 03, 2021 @09:38PM (#28742125)

This is very interesting. Do you have a write up on the procedurally generated landscape part?

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Re:E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Rasp... by blacksmith_tb on Monday October 04, 2021 @11:50AM (#28748287)

It was posted recently, so there's some discussion here[1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23469233

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