The-Open-Book
tinydrm
The-Open-Book | tinydrm | |
---|---|---|
38 | 1 | |
7,362 | 83 | |
- | - | |
3.7 | 0.0 | |
5 months ago | about 4 years ago | |
C++ | C | |
Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 | - |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
The-Open-Book
-
E-ink is so Retropunk
Have you seen the "Open Book" project?
https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book
-
Has anyone made an e-ink ebook reader (but that can use Internet Archive online)?
Open book project https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book
- The Open Book: Project Reboot
-
NOOK 1st gen MAX UPGRADES ideas (larger battery, storage, and more)
If you want to get all custom, you could build an e-reader https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-pico-powered-open-source-ebook-reader
-
What Can We Learn from Barnes and Noble's Surprising Turnaround?
>I really wish I could have an e-reader, but again, I don't want to spend money on things that will lock me into a single vendor indefinitely and might just arbitrarily go away.
https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book
This may be up your alley.
-
Are there any small form factor readers (a third the size of a smartphone or smaller)?
It's not a commercial off the shelf product, but the Open Book uses a 4.2" screen. There are other devices you can find on places like AliBaba that are kinda small. However, in general you won't find a name brand commercial ereader under 6" that isn't ina phone body. There were a couple at 5" back-when but the industry really settled on 6" as the common base size.
-
GitHub Code Search (Preview)
This is very useful to see examples of how people have used APIs that are either poorly documented or not at all. Or even that are well documented, really. Going from docs to code is not always straightforward.
To give you just one example, recently I've been using it to find how people have written code to interface with e-ink displays. I usually have the datasheet which lists all the commands the protocol support, but building it all into a valid startup sequence of ~20 commands to activate the display is left as an exercise for the reader.
So the docs will look like this: https://www.waveshare.com/w/upload/6/6a/4.2inch-e-paper-spec...
And what I need is a sequence like this: https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book/blob/5c5054c58...
- Should I invest in a Kindle? I find myself too distracted to read on my phone or laptop
- Best e-reader for better privacy?
-
Does anyone know where to find the Open Book ereader as either a kit, components or the completed project?
There is a link to the project early in the article: https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book
tinydrm
-
CutiePi – thinnest Raspberry Pi 4 tablet
A friend & I have a dream of building an E-reader based on the 10" ED097OC4 E-ink display that was built into the Kindle DX and can now be had for around 30€ (old stock?).
Most parts of the stack are conceptually figured out:
A Pine64 SOPINE module (comparable to the Raspi CM, but cheaper), a Linux DRM driver based on tinydrm (https://github.com/notro/tinydrm) or gud (https://github.com/notro/gud/), as panel driver either vroland's ESP32 based EPDiy (https://hackaday.io/project/168193-epdiy-976-e-paper-control...) or a custom FPGA solution.
What's really missing and what I just can't figure out is how to get a touch input layer on there. Because the format is so weird there's just nothing available off the shelf at a fitting size. Cutting them to size doesn't seem feasible (or is it?), perhaps the most DIYable would be an infrared solution (like early kindles have), but on that topic there's a distinct lack of DIY materials.
A button-only navigation would really suck, since even KOReader (the absolute minimum application to run, preferable would be a full Wayland desktop) doesn't seem to be compatible with that.
I figure this is the best place to ask: Does anyone have an idea how this could be solved? Also, would anyone be interested in E-reader kits like that?
What are some alternatives?
cutiepi-board - Open source hardware design for the CutiePi tablet
cutiepi-shell - A mobile shell for Raspberry Pi OS
koreader - An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices
KoboCloud - A set of scripts to synchronize a kobo reader with popular cloud services
Inkplate-6-hardware - Open Source Hardware (OSH) files for e-paper display Inkplate 6
zephyr - Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
inkpalm-5-adb-english - Instructions to setup an Xioami Inkpalm 5 with English and other apps
awesome-reMarkable - A curated list of projects related to the reMarkable tablet
nuttx - Apache NuttX is a mature, real-time embedded operating system (RTOS)
okreader - Free/libre software for Kobo ebook readers