Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times

Re:Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times by moffkalast on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @04:29PM (#47143355)

For the less reverse-engineering prone among us, there are also similarly sized e-ink displays that plug into Raspberry Pi DSI ports for maybe $5 more on Aliexpress. They might actually be salvaged kindle screens.

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Re:Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times by slig on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @05:24PM (#47144157)

Do you have a model number or link, please?

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Re:Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times by bartvk on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @03:06AM (#47148731)

I seriously do not like people saying "it's on AliExpress". I'm sure it is, but the problem is quality control so a specific link is greatly helpful.

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Re:Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times by slig on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @05:26AM (#47149759)

Yeah, there's a ton of e-ink displays, most of them do not come with the controller or are replacement for kindle (how to drive those?) or are tiny.

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Re:Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times by moffkalast on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @05:37AM (#47149831)

I'm afraid I can't really vouch for any specific one, it's been years since I've messed around with one and suppliers change their stock constantly.

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