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How difficult would it be for a maker type to cobble together a portable vim editor using one of these?

donaltroddyn 6y ago
The 7-colour version doesn't support partial refresh and has a 15s refresh time (~0.067Hz refresh rate), so you'd want to be a really confident touch typist.
- pmdulaney 6y ago
  Thanks...
- Wowfunhappy 6y ago
  Mind, the black and white e-ink screens would still work for this.
- ranger207 6y ago
  Sounds like it's time to learn ed.
  - jrockway 6y ago
    ed echoes back the characters you input as you type them. This display would not be able to do that.
    - tzs 6y ago
      Put a one or two line black and white LCD on the bottom to show your ed-like commands, with the e-ink just showing the results of edits.
hedora 6y ago
The Freescale i.MX508 controller can do 8fps. It seems completely capable of displaying vim, but is monochrome. Here’s a video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0DVlGZ3_d3Q https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0DVlGZ3_d3Q I’d love one of these with a full keyboard, wifi and enough of a terminal emulator to ssh somewhere.
- ianai 6y ago
  From a decade ago. Seems odd how this tech has so few applications.
  - mark-r 6y ago
    The small sizes, extreme update times, and high prices make it very noncompetitive with LCD.
nightowl_games 6y ago
I was chasing down this route a while ago with a Waveshare touch screen and a RPI3. I was wiring stuff up on a breadboard and was so stoked when things worked. The next level is that you send a schematic into a custom circuit board company and they send you back a PCB. The future is that we custom print open source PCB designs, solder our RPIs and Touch Screens on and bam we have custom brewed machines.
bradly 6y ago
Not e-ink, but you can get a RasperryPi case with a built-in display along with battery pack. Pairing with a 40% keyboard gives a nice, portable environment.
sparker72678 6y ago
Great video on these sorts of displays, what they're capable of, and perhaps some inspiration for any hobby projects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsbiO8EAsGw&t=617s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsbiO8EAsGw&t=617s
efskap 6y ago
As an alternative approach, I mounted my 2012 Kindle PW, a raspberry pi, and my split keyboard (diverge 2) on a folding guitar stand. And I mean, it works: https://i.imgur.com/FNbKA0b.jpg https://i.imgur.com/FNbKA0b.jpg Vim certainly makes the latency tolerable.

The 7-colour version doesn't support partial refresh and has a 15s refresh time (~0.067Hz refresh rate), so you'd want to be a really confident touch typist.

pmdulaney 6y ago
Thanks...
Wowfunhappy 6y ago
Mind, the black and white e-ink screens would still work for this.
ranger207 6y ago
Sounds like it's time to learn ed.
- jrockway 6y ago
  ed echoes back the characters you input as you type them. This display would not be able to do that.
  - tzs 6y ago
    Put a one or two line black and white LCD on the bottom to show your ed-like commands, with the e-ink just showing the results of edits.

hedora 6y ago

The Freescale i.MX508 controller can do 8fps. It seems completely capable of displaying vim, but is monochrome. Here’s a video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0DVlGZ3_d3Q https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0DVlGZ3_d3Q I’d love one of these with a full keyboard, wifi and enough of a terminal emulator to ssh somewhere.

ianai 6y ago
From a decade ago. Seems odd how this tech has so few applications.
- mark-r 6y ago
  The small sizes, extreme update times, and high prices make it very noncompetitive with LCD.

nightowl_games 6y ago

I was chasing down this route a while ago with a Waveshare touch screen and a RPI3. I was wiring stuff up on a breadboard and was so stoked when things worked. The next level is that you send a schematic into a custom circuit board company and they send you back a PCB. The future is that we custom print open source PCB designs, solder our RPIs and Touch Screens on and bam we have custom brewed machines.

bradly 6y ago

Not e-ink, but you can get a RasperryPi case with a built-in display along with battery pack. Pairing with a 40% keyboard gives a nice, portable environment.

sparker72678 6y ago

Great video on these sorts of displays, what they're capable of, and perhaps some inspiration for any hobby projects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsbiO8EAsGw&t=617s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsbiO8EAsGw&t=617s

efskap 6y ago

As an alternative approach, I mounted my 2012 Kindle PW, a raspberry pi, and my split keyboard (diverge 2) on a folding guitar stand. And I mean, it works: https://i.imgur.com/FNbKA0b.jpg https://i.imgur.com/FNbKA0b.jpg Vim certainly makes the latency tolerable.