[omershapira]

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

[dh-g]

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]

Love your readme lol

[jes5199]

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]

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

[2] https://www.amazon.com/DASUNG-Paper-Monitor-Knight-Version/d...

[omershapira]

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.

[KennyBlanken]

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

[omershapira]

To be fair:

1. His project does allow rendering any 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]

Also it actually looks nice. But I do agree it's lame that it's locked down.

[Fnoord]

Anyone got it to work with Nextcloud?