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That's cool! I was looking into doing a project that turned old Kindles into Meeting Room Booking Signage. Did anyone stumble upon previous work in that directi
by Roritharr 8y ago
That's cool! I was looking into doing a project that turned old Kindles into Meeting Room Booking Signage. Did anyone stumble upon previous work in that direction?
- hmottestad 8y agoI made this: http://fluffyelephant.com/2015/12/reuse-my-ebook-reader/ http://fluffyelephant.com/2015/12/reuse-my-ebook-reader/ It's not a kindle, but a Sony PRS-T1. What I did was simple: Jailbreak it so I could get to the Android dev menu and disable sleep. Make a webpage with javascript that pulls in an image from yr.no (for weather) and gets xml from ruter.no (for subway times). Then just use the built in web browser and put it all in a frame to cover all the ugly parts and also covers the android status bar up top. PS: If you just want a working meeting room booking system. We have these on the wall by every meeting room at work: https://www.evoko.se/products/evoko-room-manager/ https://www.evoko.se/products/evoko-room-manager/
- Roritharr 8y agoCool, I will look into this. The pre-built systems all cater to larger orgs that have no qualms at spending thousands on this nice to have feature. If I can't hack it for fun in a day on spare hw it's not worth it to me.