> Give me wifi, e-ink display, and the ability to write a regular program that writes unicode chracters to STDOUT (and have that rendered to the display) and I'

> Give me wifi, e-ink display, and the ability to write a regular program that writes unicode chracters to STDOUT (and have that rendered to the display) and I'll give you my money right now. I bought an Inkplate 10 from eBay for like £80, which is an absolute bargain. 10" display, ESP-32. You do have to buy a battery but they're cheap and available and it has the charging circuits built in. The only real downsides I've found are: 1. No case. I don't want an ugly 3D printed one so I ended up buying a custom sized picture frame online (£17 I think), and mounting it in that. 2. The software is Arduino based. Arduino is trash, but I don't want to have to figure out how to set up something sane like PlatformIO or Rust, so I've opted to put as little software on it as possible. All it does is download an image, display it, and then go to sleep for however long the server says. I even made a simple custom image format so I didn't have to deal with PNG or whatever. Yes it is. Code quality is abysmal. There's no CLI interface to their build system so you have to use their gimped editor. It doesn't even support incremental compilation, which means a one-line change takes like 5 minutes to deploy while it rebuilds SSL libraries etc. every single time. Having said that I probably would have just bought this if it was available at the time. Only 7 inches, which is tiny, but a lot less effort!