Hah I did something similar. Took an old Kindle and jailbroke it. It runs a script that will wake it up and refresh every half hour. It pulls down images of my google calendar from a small app I wrote that runs in my k8s cluster. I use shot-scraper, though. Allows me to inject some JS and CSS to prettify it.
Works well. About 1-2mo of battery life. I 3D printed a frame for it with some magnets so I can affix it to the fridge.
Hey everyone! I got an e-ink display and wanted to make something with it, and made this! I call it the Timeframe, and it was really fun to make. I'll be around to chat if you have any questions.
Reminds me of the Newton! Great little project and nice idea to just render an image and have it display that, rather than programming all the graphics on the device, well done!
Thanks! I like how flexible that approach is, I can turn it into a weather station just by generating a different image. I really like this display, too, it's very legible and consumes very little battery.
Gotta be the plastic indeed; it also reminds me of this [1] - a mockup design I cannot track the source but guess it's also one of Apple. Kinda similar to old iPad docks
Works well. About 1-2mo of battery life. I 3D printed a frame for it with some magnets so I can affix it to the fridge.