[catchmeifyoucan]

I've been working on an e-ink laptop. I wanted a machine I could stare hours at and feel okay about it. I didn't seem to find a device like that out there.

I'm designing everything from the chassis to the software OS. E-ink has its own design constraints. I'm building 5 apps for it: a browser, reader, mail, writer and code editor. It's still a ways to go. Here's a picture of what I have so far:

https://www.heyraviteja.com/kitiki.png

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Depending on what your goals are just adding a Bluetooth keyboard to an Android E Reader gets you 90% of the way there.

https://shop.boox.com/products/go103

I dabbled in hardware and I quickly found you need millions to do anything.

However, this definitely is a market waiting for a product. I’d lean towards looking if you can add a custom screen to the framework laptop.

That’ll be much cheaper to build and easier. I reckon you’d only need a custom Linux driver for the screen.

[catchmeifyoucan]

Thanks for sharing! Agree, building hardware hasn't been the easiest thing.

Interesting, I like the idea of a custom screen on the Framework. I'm sure that may come with its own challenges as well :)

[3abiton]

My main gripe with boox is their closed source bloated firmware and no ability to unlock the bootloader.

[cheschire]

hey maybe the kid that made the anyon_e would be inspiring for you!

Here's a couple related videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fks3PBodyiE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0sLQvuLwxQ

[catchmeifyoucan]

Huge inspiration! I loved the anyon_e videos. He DIY'ed the laptop and made it look really nice.

[nalinidash]

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