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Heh, the screens I use are exactly the ones contained in those products. Huh, the battery lasts for ten years? I wonder how many refreshes you get for that. Ma

Heh, the screens I use are exactly the ones contained in those products. Huh, the battery lasts for ten years? I wonder how many refreshes you get for that. Maybe I should just be using those.....

woodleader 4y ago
I've worked in retail for an electronics store where we gradually changed over to those. They were from https://www.ses-imagotag.com/products/electronic-shelf-labels/ https://www.ses-imagotag.com/products/electronic-shelf-label... They even calimed to us 13 years batery life at an average of 1 refresh per day. They are pretty power efficient and we've had many devices that ran for years without an issue.
- stavros 4y ago
  That's around 5000 refreshes, being a bit charitable. If I'm playing cards, I might see that in a few days, as I'm going to be doing tens or hundreds of refreshes a day, rather than one.
  - andai 4y ago
    If the cards are always on a table / special playing surface, they could be wirelessly charged during play.
    - DougBTX 4y ago
      Some variants use NFC power to drive the display update, so no batteries!
      - jonahss 4y ago
        I didn't realize NFC could deliver enough power for that. I'll look into it.
        AdamTReineke 4y ago
        The demos I saw of this were slow, on the order of 10 seconds to get enough power through.
        jonahss 4y ago
        aha! So there is a catch. Still worth checking out.
        eru 4y ago
        If you could store that power in a capacitor it might be fine. Basically, only one change every ten seconds is probably workable, as long as you don't have a ten second latency when asking for a change.
  - Altho00 4y ago
    I think it would really depends on what game you're playing. From what I gathered from the article it's not really meant to replace a standard deck of cards but more aimed towards board games. People that are serious about board gaming will usually have 1 session/week , sometimes but rarely more, often less. So I'm sure on average each card will get more than 7 refreshes/week but it will probably be in the acceptable range.
Abishek_Muthian 4y ago
Aaron Christophel is your guy for e-ink price tag hacking [1]. He's a friendly guy, he'll help you. [1] https://www.youtube.com/@atc1441 https://www.youtube.com/@atc1441

Heh, the screens I use are exactly the ones contained in those products. Huh, the battery lasts for ten years? I wonder how many refreshes you get for that. Maybe I should just be using those.....

woodleader 4y ago

I've worked in retail for an electronics store where we gradually changed over to those. They were from https://www.ses-imagotag.com/products/electronic-shelf-labels/ https://www.ses-imagotag.com/products/electronic-shelf-label... They even calimed to us 13 years batery life at an average of 1 refresh per day. They are pretty power efficient and we've had many devices that ran for years without an issue.

stavros 4y ago
That's around 5000 refreshes, being a bit charitable. If I'm playing cards, I might see that in a few days, as I'm going to be doing tens or hundreds of refreshes a day, rather than one.
- andai 4y ago
  If the cards are always on a table / special playing surface, they could be wirelessly charged during play.
  - DougBTX 4y ago
    Some variants use NFC power to drive the display update, so no batteries!
    - jonahss 4y ago
      I didn't realize NFC could deliver enough power for that. I'll look into it.
      - AdamTReineke 4y ago
        The demos I saw of this were slow, on the order of 10 seconds to get enough power through.
        jonahss 4y ago
        aha! So there is a catch. Still worth checking out.
        eru 4y ago
        If you could store that power in a capacitor it might be fine. Basically, only one change every ten seconds is probably workable, as long as you don't have a ten second latency when asking for a change.
- Altho00 4y ago
  I think it would really depends on what game you're playing. From what I gathered from the article it's not really meant to replace a standard deck of cards but more aimed towards board games. People that are serious about board gaming will usually have 1 session/week , sometimes but rarely more, often less. So I'm sure on average each card will get more than 7 refreshes/week but it will probably be in the acceptable range.

Abishek_Muthian 4y ago

Aaron Christophel is your guy for e-ink price tag hacking [1]. He's a friendly guy, he'll help you. [1] https://www.youtube.com/@atc1441 https://www.youtube.com/@atc1441