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 w3p706 on Monday October 04, 2021 @01:06AM (#28743293)

I buy old kindles for this, ~50$ per piece. they have a linux os & battery included. you get in through a serial port and a password generated for your serial number. downside is that you fight the kindle os in certain aspects.

see for example: https://github.com/Neelakurinji123/kindle-weather-display

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Re:E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Rasp... by bpye on Monday October 04, 2021 @01:20AM (#28743352)

I wonder what it would take to build your own firmware image if you were reusing for exclusive alternative use? Presumably there is a Linux kernel tree somewhere and you could pull the waveforms from the Amazon image?

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Re:E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Rasp... by nanomonkey on Monday October 04, 2021 @01:37AM (#28743419)

Check out http://fread.ink/

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Re:E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Rasp... by krzyk on Monday October 04, 2021 @10:30AM (#28747205)

Tried that, but when I was at the process of soldering the cables to the debug ports, the "solder spots" came out of the board :(

Now I need to press hard with a needles to make the serial port work - so it is quite hard to setup - at least until I install sshd there and setup wifi to make it work wirelessly.

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Re:E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Rasp... by karlkloss on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:03AM (#28743927)

Do you have a list of compatible kindle models, and how to identify them?

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Re:E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Rasp... by w3p706 on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:32AM (#28744415)

I use most the paperwhite 2nd generation (212ppi resolution) as this had good availability and price. but the devices are quite hard to keep apart

the mobileread forum ist full of good information e.g.: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=267541

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