Post 2235480 by ian@merveilles.town
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(DIR) Post #2235480 by ian@merveilles.town
2018-12-24T03:18:15Z
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I'd like to build a little smart display to track and showcase interesting and relevant data, read me the news, etc. However the idea of a single "smart mirror" in my home isn't really appealing; I don't want to look at myself all day haha. Any other suggestions? Of course, I could just put up a RasPi screen somewhere, but wondering if there's another diy project similar that's more interesting.
(DIR) Post #2235553 by drisc@merveilles.town
2018-12-24T03:21:30Z
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@ian Had an idea for e-ink displays that ran off ESP8622s a while back. The info would all be RSS feeds just updating every 10 mins or so from a crawler/formatter running on a central node.
(DIR) Post #2235578 by drisc@merveilles.town
2018-12-24T03:23:04Z
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@ian Had an idea for e-ink displays that ran off ESP8266s a while back. The info would all be RSS feeds just updating every 10 mins or so from a crawler/formatter running on a central node.
(DIR) Post #2235784 by joshavanier@merveilles.town
2018-12-24T03:38:26Z
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@ian Use a rear projection glass display instead of a mirror
(DIR) Post #2236283 by ian@merveilles.town
2018-12-24T04:07:59Z
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@joshavanier Lol, only 3 feet deep.
(DIR) Post #2236291 by ian@merveilles.town
2018-12-24T04:08:50Z
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@drisc eInk is great, but it'll damn near triple the cost of this build. And make it difficult to read without getting right up in there I think.
(DIR) Post #2236347 by drisc@merveilles.town
2018-12-24T04:13:39Z
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@ian It's surprisingly readable from as far back as 8 feet if rendered at about 22pt. Still a bit fuzzy though and to fit any useful data on one you would need it to be at least 10 inches which as you said is pretty costly at the moment.
(DIR) Post #2236375 by ian@merveilles.town
2018-12-24T04:15:45Z
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@drisc @brennan and I talk about it a lot, but the e-ink future I was hoping for never really materialized. I remember going to tech showcases like a decade ago and thinking it would change the world, and it kinda hasn't?
(DIR) Post #2236454 by drisc@merveilles.town
2018-12-24T04:20:52Z
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@ian @brennan The ebook market went "Eh, good enough, ship it" and that's pretty much it. I wish it had had developed further and seen more widespread adoption.It's a really interesting technology which could have had great potential in the IoT space if they had kept woking on the refresh rate. It's lower power than OLED for long term installations and it can carry on displaying images even when the power is gone since it just holds state.
(DIR) Post #2238995 by eel@merveilles.town
2018-12-24T07:10:26Z
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@ian if using a smallish display, maybe run a speedreader so instead of having to hold all the information at once it can upload it to your brain at max bandwidth
(DIR) Post #2239011 by eel@merveilles.town
2018-12-24T07:11:26Z
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@ian if using a smallish display, maybe run a speedreader on it so instead of having to hold all the information at once it can upload it to your brain at max bandwidth
(DIR) Post #2241413 by lucaorio@merveilles.town
2018-12-24T09:41:17Z
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@ian Don't know about the feasibility of it, but I'd want this when I have breakfast. Perhaps under a glass?
(DIR) Post #2242324 by ra@merveilles.town
2018-12-24T10:34:19Z
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@ian @joshavanier ...and a short-throw projector!