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So that's the current state of available stuff - The ESP32 stuff is quite interesting because it's all you need for an IoT module and in the right version it ev
by solarkraft 7y ago
So that's the current state of available stuff - The ESP32 stuff is quite interesting because it's all you need for an IoT module and in the right version it even has enough RAM for full screen updates.
I don't know specifics about the voltage conversion yet (these screens need about -20V - 20V), but I reckon that if you're really frugal you could make a battery powered wall display for under 60€ with this stuff - and that's part 1 of what I'm thinking of doing.
Part 2 would be to stick in a Pine64 SOPINE System On a Module [6], put on a capacitive touch layer [7] and run a mainline Linux with KOReader and maybe even a Wayland compositor to be able to run any Linux app (the high contrast GTK theme seems perfect for this application).
All hopefully for under 200€, which is a lot less expensive than other e-readers if that size and a whole lot cooler.
Any tips?
[6]: https://store.pine64.org/?product=sopine-a64 https://store.pine64.org/?product=sopine-a64
[7]: https://aliexpress.com/item/32984143128.html https://aliexpress.com/item/32984143128.html
[8]: https://github.com/koreader/koreader https://github.com/koreader/koreader