Good job, but I’m left wanting to know how to build a printer.
This is amazing!!! It just makes sense. And its just how you would want to use a e reader.
if it looks like a paper, it should act like a paper
You can even fold it, once!
It's also not effective against rock
Jan Ken Po!
I don't understand the purpose. What am I missing?
The author "prints" to the eink display. Why not load say the pdf directly?
> I was thinking of this, but rendering PDF takes a lot out of a 400KB RAM'd device. It also needs a ton of things to actually work which the ROM can't hold.
> Kindles have a ton of RAM, this one didn't.
From the 4th line in the article:
> But getting stuff onto it was tedious. I had to join its hotspot and open a little upload website in my browser. Yuck.
Anyway, very creative, I like the idea a lot.
I love the concept, but I wonder why he wasn’t printing to PDF. Can this device not render PDFs?
I was thinking of this, but rendering PDF takes a lot out of a 400KB RAM'd device. It also needs a ton of things to actually work which the ROM can't hold.
Kindles have a ton of RAM, this one didn't.
Probably not. It doesn't appear to have enough ram. I'm not sure the CPU is up to that either.
Very cool. I'll be updating to this fork
Thanks. It's rough around the edges, so PRs are open, and there's a recipe in the repo if you want to build your own apps.
This is a fantastic idea!
We finally have PADDs from Star Trek!
Wow!! I didn't think of that.
I've been seeing the Xteink a lot lately. Should I get an X3 or an X4? I don't really know why I want it, but I have an eInk addiction, so I just need it.
I bought an x4 a month or so ago, zero regrets. It sounds hyperbolic but it’s finally been the thing to actually decouple me from my phone. Whenever I’m out and about, bored, I just slide it out and pick up where I left off reading last. It’s a nicer reading experience on my kobo but the portability and.. frankly charm just can’t be beat.
I've owned all of them and the answer is the X4 Pro IMO. It has a backlight, which is the only thing I really missed on the others.
It's funny that X3 is a successor of X4. Only downside is that X4 has a USB-C port and X3 doesn't
What about the back light? Are they otherwise identical?
X3 isn't backlit, but the battery lasts 7 days. So, it's pretty good for me
Outstanding! This is so...correct.
I'd say it's an eco-friendly printer