Nice. I wonder if you could do away with the laptop altogether, and just use your phone with the Kindle, maybe with a bluetooth keyboard for the kindle (for some light work on a beach).
Or if there are any other e-ink tablets that run a full linux (cli) or Android?
There are eink readers that are easier to hack, like the Kobo, but they're all limited in that they're e-readers and have the minimal processing power to match. The only full on eink tablet I know of is this one[0] which technically doesn't exist yet. It's fully funded, though, so I'm excited to see if it actually ships.
That's a limitation of e-ink that has yet to be explored. The Dasung paperlike[0] is a usb driven eink screen. From what I've seen of it so far, the refresh rate is on par with other usb-driven monitors I've used. It's about good enough for editing text, but anything more gets old fast. I wonder how fast that monitor could be pushed if used displayport instead of USB.
I've been tempted to buy an eink dev kit and see how fast I can push the refresh rate without consideration for battery life. Alas, I can't justify the cost. Oh, and I've never done embedded programming or driver development before. I suspect that might be an issue. :D
Using vim in 'noredraw' mode you don't need high refresh rate, 9600 baud is fine.
Well, I'd say even more - these days when usual attention span is like, I don't know, 5 seconds? having a device which is restrictive in this regard, might be a very positive experience.
> having a device which is restrictive in this regard, might be a very positive experience.
It's funny you should say that. A guy I know hired some programmers to come up with custom software for a hacked Boox. It was a universal inbox for twitter, reddit, facebook and email conversations. The idea was that it purposely forced him to focus on only one thing at a time to increase his attention span and reduce the "instant thrill" of web browsing.
He has this entire theory of 'low reward lifestyle' I find intriguing.
Then again, he didn't try to do any programming on it. I'm a big fan of keeping the write -> compile loop as small as possible.
Or if there are any other e-ink tablets that run a full linux (cli) or Android?