I don't know about this device specifically but this is a decent review and this kind of simple epaper screen seems like a thing a lot of people would like and it wouldn't become an obsolete gadget being such an inherently simple focused tool.

Feel free to recommend alternatives!

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[–] 36 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Can it be the father figure I never had?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    I bought the Seeed TRMNL DIY kit a while back, and had less time than I'd like to fiddle with it, but I was a bit disappointed with the current state of hosting your own server for it.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I got a TRMNL X and a Seeed e-ink display. I like them. The color Seeed display looks reasonably good for what it is. The TRMNL X has been running without recharging showing a single static image for well over six months. It might be approaching a year.

    I just looked at their site and see that they have a color display that I wasn't aware of and I'm mildly interested in purchasing one. I guess that's my endorsement: bought one device, would buy another. Not affiliated, just a nerd who likes electronic toys.

    They haven't improved my life in any meaningful way, but I read a neat blog post about how someone used one to create a message board for a parent who survived a stroke or some other memory-impairment. The adult children could write helpful messages to the parent through a custom web portal created by the developer son. Got me interested, though we're not doing anything practical like that.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    The TRMNL X has been running without recharging showing a single static image for well over six months. It might be approaching a year.

    I mean, if it's just a single static image you can go ahead and unplug the battery, e-ink doesn't need energy to maintain an image.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    Yeah. That's what a display does. This is like advertising a monitor as something that can be "anything you want it to"

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    So... It could it be be brown, it could be blue, it could be violet sky, it could be hurtful, it could be purple, it could be anything I like... Right?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    800 × 480 seems like it must have a pretty low DPI right?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    You can tell from the photos it's not exactly high-res, but for the kinds of usage cases they are demonstrating (mainly an info display you place somewhere in your house), that's not really a deal breaker. It's not meant to be a digital picture frame or an ebook reader, where DPI would actually matter.

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  • A boombox? With little cassettes that change into animals on command?

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