![]() I haven’t done this myself but it looks like on recent devices you can do this using WebLaunch. This seems a good solution to me as you can create very flexible screens and also run some javascript to do whatever you want. My idea is to use a web browser on the device to make it render custom HTML pages. I don’t have a server in my current home and in general it would make more sense to me to have a device that can do everything on its own. The “problem” with these existing solutions is that they basically use a server to render an image and than they just fetch it to display it on the screen. In fact, some people already had the same idea (see link at the bottom). So i asked myself “Mmm… can i build something like this? Maybe hacking some existing hardware?” and the answer was obviously my Kindle! It has an eInk display and WiFi connectivity built-in. I wouldn’t really want a normal LCD lit all the time in my home to display some info, but it woud be cool to have something like that and this type of display would make more sense. I thought that this might be a good use-case for an eInk display. The screen was quite small and the device was battery powered, communicating via WiFi. I recently saw a KickStarter project that was about making a small device that used an eInk display to show some random information. ![]()
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