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by Debonnys 2260 days ago
This is awesome!

However as the discussion from earlier today shows (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827833), it is still very expensive.

The display used in this article costs about $1500 (https://shopkits.eink.com/product/31-2%CB%9D-monochrome-epap...). Which is a bit too high for me to want to make something similar for myself.

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Smaller e-ink displays are astronomically cheaper--I wonder if connecting several of them and then rastering the pdf would look much different?
The joins would have to very seamless. The visual presentation is the whole point of this thing, so you wouldn't want to ruin that.
These guys make it seem nice: https://www.visionect.com/blog/tiling-eink-displays/. It would probably be a pain to set up, though.