Greg Raiz
3 HN mentions · mentioned in 3 months, 2021–2023
5:08 · 83K views · Mar 28, 2021
A short project video in which Greg Raiz turns a 32-inch eInk display into a wireless digital newspaper showing daily front pages. It runs for months on battery, and the code is published on GitHub.
HN commenters cite it as inspiration for large eInk displays and their own DIY projects.
3 comments from Hacker News
Joan’s parent company, Visionect[1], also produces the Place & Play, a 13” or 36” eInk display[2]. Some guy created a rotating newspaper frame from it[3]. Looks quite amazing, and it has a 1 year battery life. [1] [LINK] [2] [LINK] [3] blog: [LINK] and video: this video and code: [LINK]
I really want an 8.5x11 or bigger, very low power e-ink device that I can use as essentially a photo display. I was inspired by this[0], but as I'm not a hardware guy at all, trying to make one is out of my reach. Hopefully this PineNote will become that device sometime. [0] this video
My inspiration is this: this video But I actually only watched the first 30 seconds and then got hooked on the idea. The impl is mine :-)