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The most fun part of these projects is seeing people quickly build ad-hoc renderers for E-Ink. Very quickly you find out you need render passes, dithering, deba

The most fun part of these projects is seeing people quickly build ad-hoc renderers for E-Ink. Very quickly you find out you need render passes, dithering, debanding, etc. Here's my weather E-Ink board (which consistently gives a faster result than waiting for the iOS weather app to fetch & render): https://github.com/OmerShapira/theres-some-weather-outside https://github.com/OmerShapira/theres-some-weather-outside

dh-g 3y ago
Yea doing that the first time was a pain but FBink is pretty widely supported on these type of devices and really lowers the barrier to entry.
artursapek 3y ago
Love your readme lol
KennyBlanken 3y ago
It's a shame that this open-source project is lower than the guy spamming and astro-turfing his locked-in calendar display.
- omershapira 3y ago
  To be fair: 1. His project does allow rendering any HTML: https://www.invisible-computers.com/programmable-e-paper-screen.html https://www.invisible-computers.com/programmable-e-paper-scr... 2. It is in stock. :) Raspberry Pi Zero 2 and the waveshare displays are in a bit of a stock crunch, and the frame I ended up mounting this in, along with the special flat USB cable, pushed the project cost to the same price. It's my own aEsTheTic tho.
  - IshKebab 3y ago
    Also it actually looks nice. But I do agree it's lame that it's locked down.
  - Fnoord 3y ago
    Anyone got it to work with Nextcloud?
jes5199 3y ago
what's the screen refresh time like on this? I have a small e-ink display that I got from Adafruit and it takes 10+ seconds to redraw
- pests 3y ago
  LTT just did a video[1] on an 25inch E-Ink display[2] that runs at 15Hz. It worked way better than I thought it would and is a pretty decent size. Little pricey. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZXrJRpA0Jw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZXrJRpA0Jw [2] https://www.amazon.com/DASUNG-Paper-Monitor-Knight-Version/dp/B0BHFC1ZSL https://www.amazon.com/DASUNG-Paper-Monitor-Knight-Version/d...
- omershapira 3y ago
  The one display I got takes about 2 seconds to cycle. You can make it shorter with partial redraws, but for my purposes, the cycle was the right thing to do.

dh-g 3y ago

Yea doing that the first time was a pain but FBink is pretty widely supported on these type of devices and really lowers the barrier to entry.

artursapek 3y ago

Love your readme lol

KennyBlanken 3y ago

It's a shame that this open-source project is lower than the guy spamming and astro-turfing his locked-in calendar display.

omershapira 3y ago
To be fair: 1. His project does allow rendering any HTML: https://www.invisible-computers.com/programmable-e-paper-screen.html https://www.invisible-computers.com/programmable-e-paper-scr... 2. It is in stock. :) Raspberry Pi Zero 2 and the waveshare displays are in a bit of a stock crunch, and the frame I ended up mounting this in, along with the special flat USB cable, pushed the project cost to the same price. It's my own aEsTheTic tho.
- IshKebab 3y ago
  Also it actually looks nice. But I do agree it's lame that it's locked down.
- Fnoord 3y ago
  Anyone got it to work with Nextcloud?

jes5199 3y ago

what's the screen refresh time like on this? I have a small e-ink display that I got from Adafruit and it takes 10+ seconds to redraw

pests 3y ago
LTT just did a video[1] on an 25inch E-Ink display[2] that runs at 15Hz. It worked way better than I thought it would and is a pretty decent size. Little pricey. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZXrJRpA0Jw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZXrJRpA0Jw [2] https://www.amazon.com/DASUNG-Paper-Monitor-Knight-Version/dp/B0BHFC1ZSL https://www.amazon.com/DASUNG-Paper-Monitor-Knight-Version/d...
omershapira 3y ago
The one display I got takes about 2 seconds to cycle. You can make it shorter with partial redraws, but for my purposes, the cycle was the right thing to do.