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Great idea although too pricey for what you get IMHO. I'll stick to hacking Kindles for now.
by pingec 9y ago
Great idea although too pricey for what you get IMHO. I'll stick to hacking Kindles for now.
- mosselman 9y agoThis sounds interesting. Could you shed some light in what hacking a kindle entails? Could I hook up my micro controller to the kindle and use the kindles display? Could I add gpio ports to the kindle and use it as a micro controller?
- pingec 9y agoSure. The kindle runs linux and has a large e-ink display and battery integrated for a good price. You can do many things that you cannot do on a micro controller. For low level stuff you can hook up an esp8266 through wifi.
- maxkrieger 9y agoCheck out using the Kindle as a raspberry pi display: http://ponnuki.net/2012/09/kindleberry-pi/ http://ponnuki.net/2012/09/kindleberry-pi/ https://maxogden.com/kindleberry-wireless.html https://maxogden.com/kindleberry-wireless.html
- mosselman 9y agoThanks for the links, this looks very cool!
- rubatuga 9y agoHere’s a link to a video I made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oel08SDFyIY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oel08SDFyIY Of course, you can skip the server section and make the IP address point to your local server. Some caveats are you need to use pngcrush to turn the image into a format that the kindle can use. Link to GitHub: https://github.com/yoonsikp/weather-display https://github.com/yoonsikp/weather-display
- slig 9y agoPlease share more. I have two Kindle 3 laying around and I'd love to do something useful with them. Everything I read about hacking older Kindles involved rooting them and displaying a HTML with whatever you wanted. That sounds too easy, and I'd like to go deeper.