← Back to context

Comment by iamben

3 years ago

I love these kind of projects. But what I'd like is slightly bigger than kindle e-ink display that shows a webpage of my choice. And I'd like it to run off mains power.

Then I can pretty much show what I want - so it's easy to set up a rotating dashboard with the weather, my calendar, TFL alerts, whatever.

Why doesn't this exist?!

6 comments

iamben

Reply
miniatureape  3 years ago

If not a webpage I would be happy with it displaying a bitmap. Let me put in a URL and poll it with the dimensions as query param. I will handle the render and serve back whatever I want.

I could draw my calendar on the left, the weather in one corner and todo list in another.

  • dmitrygr  3 years ago

    You can buy eInk price tags off eBay (7.4 inch price data brand, $25 each). I am releasing in a week or so, a cursory firmware for them that allows drawing on them in greyscale plus yellow any image you want, uploaded remotely. Quite cheap. Years of battery life.