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Wyldcard e-ink trading card Developer Kit
- jonahss 3y agoAfter the initial excitement from my Show HN post, Crowd Supply, an open source hardware crowdfunding site reached out about launching my proposed dev kit on their site! After five months of putting everything in order for the campaign, I'm launching! Happy for the chance to get Wyldcard into the hands of more people.
- bckr 3y agoCongrats on the campaign Jonah! One thing I’m confused about—it says here that $540 of $1 raised. Is the campaign starting, or over?
- jonahss 3y agoIt's starting now and will go for 5 weeks. The raising threshold is $1 because even with one order I'll still deliver units. The more orders in this campaign, the more units Crowd Supply will order to keep on stock, so there's potentially 50% matching on each sale in this campaign.
- Fgehono 3y agoI'm not sure if I get it. How do you use them? And why is the eink display so slow?
- jonahss 3y agoAh, you can use them like playing cards, like Magic the Gathering or something similar, but the cards can change when placed on a base. This unlocks game mechanics which aren't possible with only cardboard. The display is slow because I'm doing a full refresh to prevent shadowing. If you're used to really quickly animated "e-ink" screens like those on the Pebble watches and Playdate, those are actually memory-in-pixel LCDs. While memory-in-pixel is very low power, it still requires some power at all times, whereas these true e-paper screens hold their image without any power at all. Also, they're the cheapest displays I could get.
- fragmede 3y agoCould these be used to play real life Sabacc?
- jonahss 3y agoIt's possible!