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Show HN: Show last Git push on an e-paper device
- jswny 6y agoA bit ironic that a webhook for GitLab is hosted on GitHub. Any reason behind that?
- mhh__ 6y agoKISS?
- searchableguy 6y agoBetter SEO and discoverability, likely.
- chrismorgan 6y agoMy guess would be that napsy uses a private GitLab instance at work, doesn’t use gitlab.com, and does have a GitHub account.
- napsy 6y agoHello, author here. That's totally correct, I use gitlab and that is the reason why gitlab and not github. I wanted to track the commits and the number of lines added/deleted per commit and my 6" e-ink device was kind of perfect for the job, sitting next to my monitor :)
- martin_a 6y ago€ 899 is absurdly expensive for this device. As much as I'd love to play with non-intrusive "low-dynamic" displays, this is just too expensive. https://www.visionect.com/product/place-and-play-13/ https://www.visionect.com/product/place-and-play-13/
- napsy 6y agoI agree, it's expensive if you compare the price to an LCD. But as this is e-paper technology with completely different use cases, the manufacturing costs are still high. Keep in mind that, currently, e-paper is not a substitute for classic LCD panels. Where e-paper shines for me is very low battery consumption. For example, the mentioned device can hold up to 6 months without a single battery recharge and is completely wireless.
- bergie 6y agoWaveShare has e-paper modules between 5" and 7" costing around 50 EUR. You can drive them either from a Raspberry Pi or a ESP8266 microcontroller. We're using a small one as an instrument panel on our boat https://github.com/meri-imperiumi/dashboard#readme https://github.com/meri-imperiumi/dashboard#readme
- napsy 6y agoNice project! Yes they are indeed cheaper. It's really up to your taste. The device I'm using is already in a casing and comes with a sophisticated software that can render any modern HTML5 on the device with full JS support.
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- Y_Y 6y agoLike say, running Firefox on a raspberry pi?
- martin_a 6y agoAmazon can somehow put those displays in a Kindle for what... 90€? Maybe they have some mix-calculation going on with book sales, but in comparison a Kindle should cost around 400-500€ when looking at those numbers here.
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- some1else 6y agoYou might prefer the 6-inch Joan Home device[1] (€ 249). It runs a productivity app[2], but the hardware and software stack is by the same company. 1: https://getjoan.com/shop/joan-home/ https://getjoan.com/shop/joan-home/ 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lRFsbLFUKk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lRFsbLFUKk
- martin_a 6y agoYeah, that might be nice for some people, just give me a 13" display with a HDMI input. I'll figure the rest out.
- schwartzworld 6y agoCute bezel, but for not much more you can get a full Android 10 tablet with an eink screen. And for like $220 less you can get a whiteboard and take 30 seconds to write your meeting times on it.
- martin_a 6y agoDo you have any information on that 10" tablet with E-Ink?
- schwartzworld 6y agoIs that other thing 10"? My bad, the one I was thinking of us 7". https://www.boox.com/ https://www.boox.com/ Edit: sorry I meant it runs Android 10, not is 10"
- martin_a 6y agoIt's interesting anyway, thanks! edit: And there's a 10 inch version, too.
- manicdee 6y agoSomething like this perhaps? https://laughingsquid.com/plotclock-a-robotic-clock-that-writes-the-time-with-a-marker/ https://laughingsquid.com/plotclock-a-robotic-clock-that-wri...
- trok 6y agoI was excited, until I found out how much it costs.. For some time I have been looking a small screen that would be used for displaying various information. However, I don't want to build the hardware myself as I feel that the result might not be safe for 24/7 usage. I've been checking digital photo frames, but have not found any solution which would allow updating the image directly and without requiring reverse engineering of an app or the device itself.
- napsy 6y agoFinding cheaper solutions is tricky. I myself am not that strong in electronic engineering, so assembling my own small device is a no-go for me. But yes it would definitely be possible with a small LCD and rpi.
- erenst 6y agoInkplate[1] might be a good option for around 100€. Compared to Joan it's less polished. You can get 3d printed case and it requires some coding (it doesn't support rendering HTML). I'm working on a personal dashboard for the screen. I'll create a website in React and then use rendertron[2] to get the screenshot on the Inkplate. [1] https://inkplate.io/ https://inkplate.io/ [2] https://github.com/GoogleChrome/rendertron https://github.com/GoogleChrome/rendertron
- nathan_f77 6y agoI've been using a first-generation iPad a digital photo frame. I use the LiveFrame [1] app, which still supports very old versions of iOS (9.5). The iPad had just been sitting in my closet for a few years, since I couldn't update it to the latest version of iOS, and most apps stopped supporting it. I was about to throw it away before I had one last attempt at doing something useful with it. I'm really glad I found the LiveFrame app and was able to get it working. It also has a web browser that can display almost any webpage (although it would probably struggle with the latest CSS features.) So you could show a dashboard web page to display some information. I would recommend looking on eBay to see if there are any cheap iPads or Android tablets. [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/liveframe/id860372559 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/liveframe/id860372559
- kzrdude 6y agoI was dreaming of making a 30" e-paper stellar/planetary map wall display, until I realized the cost of these.
- martin_a 6y agoThat's kind of what I'm thinking about. I want a large "slow" display on the office wall to show me statistics, calendar entries and whatnot for our team. Don't want to attach a bright, shining display to the wall if the information only changes twice a day or so.
- robocollab 6y agoIf you'd like a cheaper alternative (and don't mind a little DIY) I wrote a library that lets you render HTML onto low cost ePaper displays using a Raspberry Pi. https://github.com/samsonmking/epaper.js https://github.com/samsonmking/epaper.js
- longchiwen 6y agoLooks like there is some space left for branch name and commit date :)
- napsy 6y agoI try to keep it minimum. But I really want to focus on the stats, so maybe more details about the branch should be interesting to follow.
- GTG 6y agoI love your approach to change tracking - so frictionless and no additional distractions (like the additional back-light of the LCDs)
- napsy 6y agoYes, I don't even notice it's there until there is a change and the screen blinks a bit. To maybe reference another comment, this is why I also like e-paper, no backlight needed, just an external source of light, like the Sun ;)