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For the longest while I wanted a portable e-ink display for outdoor use (just something good enough for terminal, text editing, maybe some light browsing), but
by lhl 10y ago
For the longest while I wanted a portable e-ink display for outdoor use (just something good enough for terminal, text editing, maybe some light browsing), but sadly nothing ever really materialized. There are larger panels available [1] but require enough low level work that nothing's ever really materialized.
There's one Chinese company that's shipping a 13.3" USB display ($1300 for the first gen [2] or $799 to pre-order a second-gen product [3]) and surprisingly enough, 10" Pixel Qi screens are also being sold, with some support for about $400 [4] or for about $150 from random Chinese retailers. [5]
Currently, the easiest/most cost effective options for getting a large e-ink display showing content are either buying a used 9.7" Kindle DX (around $150-200) and hacking VNC onto it [6] or doing running VNC on the 13.3" Onyx BOOX MAX (~$650, in short supply, it runs Android 4.0 and has wifi, BT and a pressure sensitive touchscreen/stylus so has some potential) [7]
[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=84926 https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=8492...
[2] http://www.solcomputer.com/sol-cvs-e-ink-monitor.html http://www.solcomputer.com/sol-cvs-e-ink-monitor.html
[3] http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/05/26/dasung-paperlike-e-ink-monitor-up-for-pre-order-on-indiegogo-799/ http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/05/26/dasung-paperlike-e-...
[4] http://www.solcomputer.com/pixel-qi-display-2.html http://www.solcomputer.com/pixel-qi-display-2.html
[5] https://www.google.com/search?q=pixel+qi+display&oq=pixel+qi+display&tbm=shop https://www.google.com/search?q=pixel+qi+display&oq=pixel+qi...
[6] https://tinyapps.org/docs/e-ink-monitor.html https://tinyapps.org/docs/e-ink-monitor.html
[7] http://www.onyx-international.com/index.php/en/boox-products/max http://www.onyx-international.com/index.php/en/boox-products...
- lj3 10y agoThere are some interesting options coming out. Both of these are fully funded and should be out sometime in the next year. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/paperlike-world-s-first-e-ink-monitor-13-3#/ https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/paperlike-world-s-first-e... https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/13-3-inch-android-e-reader#/ https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/13-3-inch-android-e-reade...
- giancarlostoro 10y agoI would love this, every time I'm reading off my Kindle I wish that it could go online so I could read blog posts and some websites. I don't like the eye strain I get after being on the computer for far too long.
- echion 10y agoKindle does have an experimental browser that's marginally functional.
- graedus 10y agoFor the few days I had a Kindle before immediately losing it, I was using p2k.co to read blogposts/articles on it. Save to pocket, then use p2k to send them to the Kindle. Definitely a bit cumbersome but it worked.
- giancarlostoro 10y agoThis is great! Exactly what I want actually...
- tuna-piano 10y agoThere are tools that let you send articles / blogs to your kindle. Check out the comfy read app on iOS, or google "send to kindle" . Obviously not the same as browsing, but still really nice
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoI like reading on my HP Stream 11 with Linux installed, I can run redshit and set the colour temperature of the screen really low (currently on 1800 Kelvin), and then run this command: echo 200 >/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness to set the brightness below the default minimum (change the value 200 as required) I can comfortably read on this screen in complete darkness. I have hotkey set for these commands.
- nextos 10y agoI've been toying with the idea of using an AMOLED screen with inverted colors for reading. That should be very close to eink, as AMOLED doesn't emit any light for black.
- david-given 10y agoI want a large Sharp Memory LCD --- the same screen which is used on the Pebble. Colour! (Although not a huge palette.) Reflective! (Looks amazing in sunlight.) 30fps refresh rate! Consumes practically no power! Alas, they ony go up to a 4.4 inch 320x240 model...
- nextos 10y agoI saw one Dasung working, and it was pretty impressive. Refresh rate is good for CLI work. Apparently, eink can get quite quick refreshes, it's just that ebook readers try to save battery. But it's a bit disappointing Dasung needs drivers, which are quite unstable and only available for OS X & Win 7.
- bicubic 10y agoI would pay serious cash for a 7"+ e-ink display that can be hooked up to a raspberry pi or laptop. Even looked at getting the chinese modules and building a driver board for them, but it was beyond my skills. This thread shows that there's a decent market for this, someone take our money!
- oliwarner 10y agoA good option (maybe) is getting an off-the-shelf screen like a Kindle replacement screen and building or buying a driver board for it. http://essentialscrap.com/eink/ http://essentialscrap.com/eink/ Given screen parts like that are so available (and cheap, <$15), I'm surprised there isn't bigger market in adapting them to other display tech.