F/OSS Arduino based "The Open Book" e-paper reader

Drizzt321 · 07-21-2020, 02:18 PM

Recently came across this really cool project that already has some working, proof of concept code and hardware. It's called The Open Book with goals of being fairly cheap, using decent off the shelf parts, and based on the Arduino platform which is eminently customizable and hackable.

Definitely not ready for prime time for anybody, however anyone interested in tinkering and is good with UI/UX for e-readers could certainly lend a hand in coding/designing the UI for the device, since right now it doesn't have much of one.

https://hackaday.io/project/168761-t...n-book-feather
https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

Dimos · 10-31-2020, 07:15 AM

this is so good!
but we need a bigger screen

murraypaul · 02-23-2021, 02:57 PM

You might be interested in the M5Paper:https://m5stack.com/products/m5paper...isplay-235-ppi

Quoth · 03-04-2021, 09:15 AM

The M5paper is far better. The 400 x 300 is an abysmal number of pixels. 800 x 600, IMO is a minimum and that is very basic now.

Also while Ardunio is popular and easy to start with the original platform is nothing like this open book. Ardunio shields are a poor HW concept and the platform was designed for a much more basic microcontroller than even the very basic ARM Cortex M0 series.

07-21-2020, 02:18 PM	#1
Drizzt321 Member Posts: 17 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2006	F/OSS Arduino based "The Open Book" e-paper reader Recently came across this really cool project that already has some working, proof of concept code and hardware. It's called The Open Book with goals of being fairly cheap, using decent off the shelf parts, and based on the Arduino platform which is eminently customizable and hackable. Definitely not ready for prime time for anybody, however anyone interested in tinkering and is good with UI/UX for e-readers could certainly lend a hand in coding/designing the UI for the device, since right now it doesn't have much of one. https://hackaday.io/project/168761-t...n-book-feather https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

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10-31-2020, 07:15 AM	#2
Dimos Enthusiast Posts: 29 Karma: 4184 Join Date: Oct 2018 Device: Boyue likebook	this is so good! but we need a bigger screen

02-23-2021, 02:57 PM	#3
murraypaul Interested Bystander Posts: 3,726 Karma: 19728152 Join Date: Jun 2008 Device: Note 4, Kobo One	You might be interested in the M5Paper:https://m5stack.com/products/m5paper...isplay-235-ppi

03-04-2021, 09:15 AM	#4
Quoth the rook, bossing Never. Posts: 12,365 Karma: 92073397 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper11	The M5paper is far better. The 400 x 300 is an abysmal number of pixels. 800 x 600, IMO is a minimum and that is very basic now. Also while Ardunio is popular and easy to start with the original platform is nothing like this open book. Ardunio shields are a poor HW concept and the platform was designed for a much more basic microcontroller than even the very basic ARM Cortex M0 series.