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Here's some hopefully constructive feedback. The RGB LED looks jarring against monochrome e-ink screen. It also gives impression of cheap electronics, and roug
by jmiskovic 7y ago
Here's some hopefully constructive feedback.
The RGB LED looks jarring against monochrome e-ink screen. It also gives impression of cheap electronics, and rough 3d printed case doesn't help. The e-ink feels elegant, solid (no flickering) and timeless, while LED is nervous, overly bright and loud. If you really need a LED, put a white one.
Maybe try to prototype audiophile hi-fi style case. Something wooden or even black glass. It would raise the price but there is obviously large interest.
The site doesn't give any information on programming, only that UART-USB is included. Is it serving web page? Can it execute user binaries? Is some GUI toolkit supported? Without providing this info you can hardly claim it's hackable.
- rotronic 7y agoIf you checkout their hackaday and github page it seems to be programmable with arduino. [EDIT] links: https://github.com/rgujju/paperdink https://github.com/rgujju/paperdink https://hackaday.io/project/168668-paperdink https://hackaday.io/project/168668-paperdink
- robertlangdon 7y agoThat was surely insightful. We'll test with a white LED. And we're working on the binaries and GUI, it seems like current hardware won't be able to serve web pages.
- playpause 7y agoWhy do you need an LED at all?
- bsdubernerd 7y agoFully agree. A white LED might be better, as long as is for notifications only. There's no need for having a constant light otherwise (that's the beauty of eink)
- robertlangdon 7y agowe're tinkering around designs, will check without LED too
- chewxy 7y agoA red LED is better IMO. Especially in the dark of night. A dim red LED is preferable to a blue LED