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i’ve thought about this a lot because i use a whiteboard on my fridge. i would do this if it was huge like my whiteboard. like 2ft by 3ft. then i can read each

i’ve thought about this a lot because i use a whiteboard on my fridge. i would do this if it was huge like my whiteboard. like 2ft by 3ft. then i can read each day at a glance. seeing the whole month is huge. and writing on it means it should be a touch screen i find myself wanting larger displays than is for sale a lot. i want an electric photo frame but not some 12in screen. i have great photos i want to see them 4ft tall. this is an underserved market

opencl 5y ago
There are 31" and 42" e-ink displays available, but they cost a few thousand dollars. The 42" is pretty close to 2ft by 3ft, 25" x 33".
- JonathanFly 5y ago
  >There are 31" and 42" e-ink displays available, but they cost a few thousand dollars. The 42" is pretty close to 2ft by 3ft, 25" x 33". I must have 4 or 5 old Kindles in a drawer by now, somehow. I wonder if you could hack together a grid of old Kindles to make a giant e-ink screen?
  - pfranz 5y ago
    A lot of these kinds of projects render out an image and send that to the display. If you did it on a server, cut up the images, and had each kindle pull their image it should be pretty trivial. The only immediate issue that comes to mind is making sure they're relatively in sync when pulling a new image if you're worried about polling too often.
    - tough 5y ago
      With 5 kindles you get a monday to friday one for each day for starters
gedy 5y ago
Might be cheaper to put a printer on top of your fridge and automatically print calendar every morning into a plexiglass holder :-)
- dsr_ 5y ago
  Hundred dollars for the printer, probably 20 cents a day for the consumables (paper, toner, electricity). The paper is recyclable. At one page a day, I would guess lifetime will be dominated by mechanical lubrication or degradation of capacitors, dust clogs, etc.
  - freemint 5y ago
    Hundred dollars for the printer, I think Zou are absolutely over spending here. Electricity can be saved by having shutoff and turn on with a timer.
- pjerem 5y ago
  That could be actually nice!
hinkley 5y ago
You definitely need to be able to make out an Information Radiator from across a room. We’ll probably see a tipping point somewhere around a 30” screen, where you can put a large summary at the top, and details farther down. Is anything going on? Is it worth me crossing the room to see? Should I be checking my email, other dashboards, or coworkers?

opencl 5y ago

There are 31" and 42" e-ink displays available, but they cost a few thousand dollars. The 42" is pretty close to 2ft by 3ft, 25" x 33".

JonathanFly 5y ago
>There are 31" and 42" e-ink displays available, but they cost a few thousand dollars. The 42" is pretty close to 2ft by 3ft, 25" x 33". I must have 4 or 5 old Kindles in a drawer by now, somehow. I wonder if you could hack together a grid of old Kindles to make a giant e-ink screen?
- pfranz 5y ago
  A lot of these kinds of projects render out an image and send that to the display. If you did it on a server, cut up the images, and had each kindle pull their image it should be pretty trivial. The only immediate issue that comes to mind is making sure they're relatively in sync when pulling a new image if you're worried about polling too often.
  - tough 5y ago
    With 5 kindles you get a monday to friday one for each day for starters

gedy 5y ago

Might be cheaper to put a printer on top of your fridge and automatically print calendar every morning into a plexiglass holder :-)

dsr_ 5y ago
Hundred dollars for the printer, probably 20 cents a day for the consumables (paper, toner, electricity). The paper is recyclable. At one page a day, I would guess lifetime will be dominated by mechanical lubrication or degradation of capacitors, dust clogs, etc.
- freemint 5y ago
  Hundred dollars for the printer, I think Zou are absolutely over spending here. Electricity can be saved by having shutoff and turn on with a timer.
pjerem 5y ago
That could be actually nice!

hinkley 5y ago

You definitely need to be able to make out an Information Radiator from across a room. We’ll probably see a tipping point somewhere around a 30” screen, where you can put a large summary at the top, and details farther down. Is anything going on? Is it worth me crossing the room to see? Should I be checking my email, other dashboards, or coworkers?