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Yeah this is why a lot of battery-powered electronic shelf labels use LCD. E-Ink's product is great but they're impossible to actually build into a working prod
by jschwartzi 6y ago
Yeah this is why a lot of battery-powered electronic shelf labels use LCD. E-Ink's product is great but they're impossible to actually build into a working product line because their terms are so odious.
- girvo 6y agoEven trying to purchase one as a hacker to use with a Pi to create a “modern day” HP 200LX palm-top required so much legal complexity bullshit and painful terms that it literally wasn’t possible. I could buy the part on the grey market from China, but the documentation was literally non-existent (as in, there was zero, none. At least from the seller I wanted it from). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_200LX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_200LX Does anyone have any suggestions for a screen that would fit this sort of use-case? The UI/UX I planned on being a straight Linux TTY1 to begin with.
- rcoder 6y agoIf you're online interested in limited quantities, this Sharp display might well fit the bill: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4694 https://www.adafruit.com/product/4694 It's a "memory LCD", which has very low no power drain when idle, but has an LCD's refresh speed (i.e., fast enough to display video). You can also get some decently-documented eInk boards from Waveshare in 1" to 13" sizes, though the costs are definitely too high for anything but one-off Maker projects: https://www.waveshare.com/product/displays/e-paper.htm https://www.waveshare.com/product/displays/e-paper.htm You may also find the PaperTTY project interesting for your TUI: https://github.com/joukos/PaperTTY https://github.com/joukos/PaperTTY