[HN Gopher] ArtFrame: E-paper wireless artwork for your living room
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ArtFrame: E-paper wireless artwork for your living room
Author : lnyng
Score : 21 points
Date : 2022-03-28 13:52 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (framelabs.eu)
(TXT) w3m dump (framelabs.eu)
| davidsawyer wrote:
| Am I going crazy, or is there no way on the website to actually
| buy this?
| kipchak wrote:
| You have to click on "buy" in the top banner first, even though
| it looks like it's already selected.
| lnyng wrote:
| I was recently searching for wedding gift for my photographer
| friend and found this. There does not seem to exist many other
| e-paper art frames and this one looks decent. It also has some
| open source software (https://github.com/framelabs-eu), but the
| firmware seems closed-source.
| tcyrus wrote:
| I was considering making something like this. Might look into
| buying this to save some time.
| vmurthy wrote:
| Starts at EUR 349 in case someone is just looking at the website
| to find out the prices (like I did) :)
| libraryatnight wrote:
| This is neat, but it looks like something the HN crowd would
| build themselves over buying. I know my first impulse was "I
| could make this..."
| Mandatum wrote:
| eInk/ePaper displays aren't cheap and getting them cheap
| requires buying pre-loved devices. The only way to drive down
| costs right now is bulk ordering. Unless your time is worth
| less than say $25/hr, this is likely much cheaper than
| building.
| freewizard wrote:
| I'm looking for a case for Kindle Paperwhite to make it look like
| this.
| tarsiel wrote:
| Very much on the DIY end, but I made a similar e-ink art piece
| that shows off the currently playing song on Spotify. I used a 3
| colour display to add some flair :)
|
| It's not the easiest to set up yourself - need to generate
| Spotify API keys and build the unnecessary separate binary for
| dithering, but here's the project if anyone is interested!
|
| https://github.com/CampbellOwen/NowPlaying
| kderbyma wrote:
| don't you need to charge them eventually? so you end up taking
| them down a lot. they should think about wireless charging pads
| that can be installed into the wall for these sorts of things.
| ilaksh wrote:
| "Integrated lithium-polymer battery for up to 7000 image
| changes over up to one year"
| klondike_ wrote:
| E-ink screens only consume power when refreshing so if you
| don't change the image a lot you won't need to charge it often
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| True, if the processor powers down too.
| nsriv wrote:
| I wonder if trickle charging with a few calculator-type solar
| cells on each edge of the frame (not the face of the frame)
| would be feasible as well to prolong battery life.
| lnyng wrote:
| But that requires a wire that goes from the outlet all the way
| to the charge pad though, right? I think the main goal is to
| have no visible wire when it's on the wall. On the other hand
| 7k image changes before going out of battery seems quite a lot.
| Just not sure if that's a representative number.
| pastrami_panda wrote:
| Sounds like a good idea.
|
| Just anecdotally I found it pretty fascinating that I bought a
| new Kindle some three months ago and it still hasn't run out of
| batteries (came with 76% and now at 16%).
|
| Admittedly I haven't been using it a lot though.
| blacksmith_tb wrote:
| My experience with Kindles is that the battery drain is all
| about wifi - if you keep it in 'airplane mode' most of the
| time (except to send new content to it / return library books
| early etc.) it can last for months on a charge.
| lancesells wrote:
| If that's the case wouldn't it be easier to just have a power
| cord?
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