E-ink is so Retropunk

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    The e-paper smart screen that I am making and selling also allows users to build their own apps:

    1. You can either just serve an image on a URL and the device will display it:

    https://www.invisible-computers.com/invisible-calendar/image...

    2. Or you wrap this into an API with users and settings, which will also allows others to install and use your app:

    https://github.com/Invisible-Computers/image-gallery/blob/ma...

    (I hope that this is sufficiently relevant to the topic to not be obnoxious, even though I am promoting my own project here.)

  • folly

    A Z-machine for the reMarkable tablet. (by bkirwi)

  • Wow, the interactive fiction interpreter looks so cool. https://github.com/bkirwi/folly i think i want one

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  • remarkable2-framebuffer

    remarkable2 framebuffer reversing

  • awesome-reMarkable

    A curated list of projects related to the reMarkable tablet

  • > As much as I love the hacker spirit of cracking open hardware and software and bending it to your will (whether or not it was designed towards that end), I enjoy my reMarkable precisely because I can get away from the ubiquity of computing and needing to constantly tinker with and repair software.

    Personally I completely agree with you, and could have written almost exactly that paragraph - I too have a ReMarkable (the 2nd / current version), and love using it as it ships for both note taking and especially for reading ebooks/PDFs ("especially" just because it's what I use it for more, not because that's what it's better at - in fact, it's UI for reading documents is among its weaker points and I hope they improve it in future software updates).

    However it's worth pointing out that you can SSH into it, and there are a fair few 3rd party tools and hacks for it - so far I've avoided trying any of them as there's nothing that I want enough to have even a 1% risk of bricking it to worry about. But I'm tempted to start playing around with it someday.

    This is the best list of stuff for the ReMarkable that I'm aware of, though I don't know how complete it is / how many released tools or guides there might be that aren't included here:

    https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

  • recrossable

    crossword game with simplistic handwriting recognition and automatic generation of crosswords

  • hyperpaper-planner

    Dayplanner pdf for large e-readers (eg Remarkable 2, Supernote, Boox)

  • > https://hyperpaper.me/ Configurable, highly linked PDF planner with a very responsive person behind it (I figure he must be around here somewhere :))

    Hey, that's me :D

    Thanks for the shout-out Ethan, I'm happy to answer any questions people have about hyperpaper

  • kindle-dash

    Power efficient dashboard for Kindle 4 NT devices

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  • 37reader

    repo for the 3.7" eReader

  • At one point I had a post on reddit about it, but I ended up deleting that. However my post did get scraped by hackster.io so here is the link to their post. https://www.hackster.io/news/diy-e-reader-incorporates-mecha... and here is my github. https://github.com/bwkrayb/37reader

    Doing a write up has been a plan of mine for a while now lol I bought a 3d printer to move on from the gutted airpods box and a case has been in a half printed state just waiting for me to design the rest of it. I've run into a creative wall and haven't gotten much further.

  • The-Open-Book

  • Have you seen the "Open Book" project?

    https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

  • waved

    Experimental driver for the reMarkable 2 E-Ink display

  • Not exactly true. there is an experimental display driver that does not require xochitl[0]. There hasn't been enough need for replacing the current rm2fb solution yet to drive completing it yet.

    0. https://github.com/matteodelabre/waved

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