How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard - Joel Hawksley

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• state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That 32" display is priced as “ask for a quote”, lol.

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  • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s something like $2k. Pretty insane for a project like this. You can just get the actual e-ink panels pretty cheap, but then you need to build a driver for it. Not simple.

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    • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah, I know how crazy expensive e-ink is, so I was curious what this dude paid. Dropping 2k on this means you have a lot of cash lying around.

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    • Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I like the project, but it seems like as soon as buddy got access to real-time e-ink he just never looked back.

      As well, I get the UI appeal of negative space, but my god it costs a fortune in e-ink.

      As everyone is noting here, this project shows a pattern of “money is no object” in every decision made.

      That doesn’t mean it has to be, though. My gut tells me you could slash the cost in half while retaining like 90% of the utility.

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  • lefixxx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is what I dislike about yhese types of dashboard projects. The eink is too costly

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    • swicano@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The way eink display prices scale is insane. You can get a 13 inch one for like 150, but any bigger than that it skyrockets. Must be that they still struggle to get good display yields across that large of an area, defect rates or something.

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    • sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      but its nice ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

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  • sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s so grey.

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• lauha@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I wish I had his hobby money. Currently my budget for this year is three sea shells I found on my neighbors yard and a first gen raspberry pi I stole ten years ago.

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How do you use the three seashells?

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    • crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You may want to wash them first…

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  • GhostlyPixel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think I saw a tutorial on how to run doom on the three seashells, at least there’s that

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  • sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    return both the stolen sea shells and raspberry pi and you will avoid prison

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• Yaky@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Neat project, but

  we set an intention to have a healthy relationship with technology in our home.

  Followed by photos of these schedule-reminder screens all over both homes.

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• doesit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Thanks for posting this. I’ve been wanting an e paper display for b&w hotos since long. Only thing that always popped up was a very expensive thing with an art subscription.

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• Bakkoda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I just saw a thousand dollar lora device and now this. I have this kind of money and even i think this is a hard no based on price alone.

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• ElHijoDelPilote@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is Great. Thanks for the detailed Story of your achievements. I would be greatly interested in a software app or even a full solution. Ever thought of starting a kickstarter? I would be a happy (alpha or) beta user

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• NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  2 days later we would be putting post it bites and pieces of paper up.

  Way to scheduled out and way to Annoying.

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• dafalcon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  super nice!

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