Collaborate Disseminate
If you have even the slightest interest in open hardware e-readers, you’ve certainly heard of [Joey Castillo]’s Open Book project. We’ve covered his efforts to develop an affordable reader that …read more Continue reading Open Book Touch Makes Crowd Funding Debut
The average Hackaday reader likely knows, at least in the academic sense, what a magnetic field looks like. But as the gelatinous orbs in our skull can perceive only a …read more Continue reading See the Unseen With this Magnetic Field Visualizer
From building facades in San Diego to road signs in Australia, we are starting to see electronic paper make its way beyond the pages of Kindles and into the world in some very interesting ways. Working to widen the applications for this promising techn… Continue reading Low-energy e-paper goes inverted for a full array of brilliant colors
It’s easy to take for granted the constantly-connected, GPS-equipped, navigation device most of us now carry in our pockets. Want to know how to get to that new restaurant you …read more Continue reading E-Paper Pocket Map Goes Where Your Phone Can’t
While the price of electronic paper has dropped considerably over the last few years, it’s still relatively expensive when compared to more traditional display technology. Accordingly, we’ve seen a lot …read more Continue reading Review: Inkplate 6PLUS
[Greg Raiz] recently set out to make it easy to read multiple newspapers in the morning over breakfast. Inspired by a similar project, he built an e-ink newspaper that hangs …read more Continue reading A Fresh E-Ink Newspaper Delivered Every Morning
Over the years, we’ve seen plenty of hackers repurpose their Kindle or similar e-reader to reap the benefits of its electronic paper display. Usually this takes the form of some software running on the reader itself, since cracking the firmware …read more
Continue reading ESP32 Inkplate Gives Kindle Displays a Second Chance
As e-paper modules have become more affordable, we’ve started to see them pop up more and more in hacker projects. It used to be that you had to force a second-hand Kindle to do your bidding, but now you can buy just the screen itself complete with a header to …read more
Continue reading E-Paper Weather Display is a Great Base to Build From
While the full steampunk aesthetic might be a bit much for most people, those antique gauges do have a certain charm about them. Unfortunately, implementing them on a modern project can be somewhat tricky. Even if you’ve got a stock of old gauges laying around, you’ve still got to modify …read more
Continue reading Radon Monitor Recreates Steam Gauge with E-Ink
These days paper is being phased out whenever possible, and while we’re still far from being a completely digital society, the last decade or two has seen a huge reduction in the amount of paper the average person deals with on a daily basis. At the very least, we seem …read more
Continue reading Will 2020 (Finally) be the Year of Electronic Paper?