Wie die Annas KN-E-Paper zu Senioren bringen - Einführung in die Digitale Welt
Wenn ich das Foto schon sehe, weiß ich, dass das nichts für Senior:innen mit eingeschränktem Sehen ist. #Epaper ist dafür auch nicht geeignet. Die Schrift viel zu klein. Die ganze Idee Papier ins Internet zu transferieren ist dumm. Das ist für Archive ja ganz nett, aber nicht für das tägliche Lesen.
Auf der Touch Taiwan hat Johnson Lee von der E Ink Corporation einen faltbaren und farbigen E-Reader vorgestellt, der von Readmoo produziert wird. Das 8-Zoll-E-Paper-Display wird wie ein Buch zusammengeklappt. Die ersten Demonstrationen der Technik sind stolze 19 Jahre her. Das Unternehmen, das die Technik erfunden hat, existiert aber nicht mehr.
Der Hersteller E Ink stellt mit dem E-Paper-Display Marquee eine Lösung für den Aussenbereich (-20°C bis +65°C) in Farbe vor:
https://www.it-markt.ch/news/2025-04-14/e-inks-neues-e-paper-display-trotzt-hitze-und-kaelte
Ich hab eine Idee, aber keine Ahnung: Ich hätte gern einen Anstecker mit E-Ink-Display und Anzeigenwechsel per Knopfdruck. Also ein magnetischer oder ansteckbarer Button, der zwischen mindestens zwei Anzeigen wechseln kann.
Anwendungsbeispiele:
• "Ich nutze WERO" → Knopfdruck → QR-Code zum Bezahlen erscheint
• "Ich nutze Threema/Signal" → Knopfdruck → QR-Code zur Kontaktaufnahme erscheint
• Namensschilder mit wechselbaren Informationen
• Stimmungsanzeiger für nonverbale Kommunikation
Fragen an die #Fediverse-Community:
- Kennst Du ähnliche Projekte?
- Wer könnte so etwas umsetzen?
- Was sind realistische Kosten?
- Fallen Dir weitere Anwendungen ein?
- Welche #Hashtags sollte ich ergänzen oder ändern?
Meine Inspirationquelle:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timo-heck-92880120a_dailyreminder-activity-7315599512465534976-efs8
E-Ink Marquee: Bunte ePaper-Displays mit bis zu 75“ für den Außeneinsatz https://www.computerbase.de/news/monitore/e-ink-marquee-vollfarbige-epaper-display-mit-bis-zu-75-fuer-den-ausseneinsatz.92097/ #eink #epaper
Has everyone noticed?
Here in #Germany almost all #supermarkets use #epaper displays to show prices. They look great. It's hard to notice that it's not ink on dead trees.
That's thousands of displays per shop. Times thousands of shops in the entire country.
Some of those displays break or otherwise get replaced.
So there must be piles of used displays around the country... but where?
Does any of my fellow #hackers know how to get some of that #trash treasure?
This #ePaper seems to have 7 internal LUT sets for different temperatures. At 20'C refresh takes 4 secs. By fixing temp sensor to > 50'C, refresh takes 3.5 secs and there's no difference in picture.
I copied this "fast" table and started reducing iterations and frame counts so that picture quality still remains intact.
I've now reached < 1 s refresh, even for the full 648x480 and it still looks very nice. And now it's fast enough for simple #Linux terminal use!
This week's #ePaper #hacking status: Got partial updates working nicely (pixel-wise) on 15€ unbranded 5.83" WFT0583CZ61. It's just as slow as full refresh, but limits flickering to the updated area, like a single 8x16 char, so the other part of the screen remains readable during refresh.
Now I try to make custom LUTs to make it faster. Nice; all registers are documented but no mention about operation principle whatsoever. Typical trial-and-error #Linux driver programming.
Giving this whole (maybe weekly) #LinkDump thing a go (in lieu of [and so far successfully escaping] writing newsletters)
Guide to securing your digital life and protecting your privacy
https://digital-defense.io
Computer Networks From Scratch
https://www.networksfromscratch.com
Obsidian notes about 100s of network concepts/topics
https://notes.networklessons.com/
Protocols for synchronisable data stores
https://willowprotocol.org/
https://earthstar-project.org/
https://try.st.imu.li/projects/vernode/ (via @tryst)
Social web translator (HTML, JSON, ActivityStreams, Atom, RSS etc.)
https://granary.io/
#CollapseComputing #FrugalComputing #VM #ConcatenativeProgramming
The Collapsible Project
https://wiki.collapsible.systems
CollapseOS & DuskOS
http://collapseos.org/
https://duskos.org
tiny-ps — Web component to display PostScript inside HTML
https://github.com/bellenuit/tiny-ps
https://belle-nuit.com/my-journey-to-postscript
ESP32-S3 w/ 4.7" touchscreen E-paper display
https://docs.m5stack.com/en/core/papers3
Lilygo T5 E-Paper S3 Pro
https://lilygo.cc/products/t5-e-paper-s3-pro
Lilygo T-Deck Plus (Meshtastic, GPS, 2000mah battery)
https://lilygo.cc/products/t-deck-plus-1
Community (and partially solar) powered online E-ink art frame
https://www.omniframe.art/
Upcoming exhibition @ ZKM Karlsruhe which will also include a custom version of my own DeFrag piece
https://zkm.de/en/2025/04/the-story-that-never-ends
Zimoun's sound architectures, installations & sculptures — always an inspiration on many levels...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx4Kx6R7nv0
Kill the “User”: Musings of a disillusioned technologist
https://www.pastagang.cc/blog/kill-the-user/
I made a thing - An e-paper literature clock. The display updates itself once per minute with a quote from a book that contains the current time, see photo for an example.
I hasten to add that this isn't my original idea, many similar projects can be found linked on the Github page.
Anyhoo, if you're interested in building your own, all the information, along with my code (Python) is available on my GitHub presence :
https://github.com/alexdyas/literature-clock-epaper
I've built many other projects, but this is the first time I'm publishing the complete code and documentation publicly, so it's a bit of an experiment. I hope to do so with other projects in the future, and maybe retrospectively with some previous projects.
(Constructive) feedback most welcome :-)
It is based on a raspberry Pi and a Waveshare 3.5" e-paper hat.
I may try an ESP32 version in the future, the Pi is really overkill for such a small project.
Enjoy!
The corruption of the #Pimoroni Badger is complete! #esphome #eink #epaper #homeassistant #3dprinting #3dprinted #smarthome #scifi #StarWars #rp2040 #raspberrypi #RaspberryPiPico
Verleger-Verband: E-Paper- und Print-Abos könnten sich in Zukunft ausgleichen
Der Bundesverband Digitalpublisher und Zeitungsverleger erwartet, dass E-Paper bis 2030 einen genauso hohen Anteil an den Abos ausmachen wie Printprodukte.
Integrated Systems Europe: Leuchtdioden, KI und Immersion
Riesendisplays aus winzigen Leuchtdioden beherrschten die Hallen der Integrated Systems Europe. In Konferenzen soll KI künftig für echte Teilhabe sorgen.
Wondering whether I’ve damaged yet another eInk panel, or if this is a different panel somehow? 
Don’t get these vertical gap lines on the other panel I’ve got, and don’t remember having them on the broken panel (before I broke it) 
