by harryvederci on 4/21/25, 10:07 PM with 194 comments
by ericjenott on 4/23/25, 11:23 PM
by kovac on 4/21/25, 11:50 PM
My own humble e-paper projects:
https://www.asciimx.com/projects/e-reader/ https://www.asciimx.com/projects/etlas/
by jmward01 on 4/21/25, 11:18 PM
by userbinator on 4/22/25, 12:30 AM
I find it amusing that the keyboard has a Windows key. Does anyone recognise what laptop it was originally from? It can't be a Thinkpad since there's no pointing stick, and I seem to remember some early Dells having a similar odd layout, but it's definitely an older one given the keys aren't islands. Odd placement of home/end and that right shift key aside, that actually looks better than most if not all laptop keyboards today (ins/del/home/end aren't Fn'd, and there's full-size arrow keys!)
by kstrauser on 4/21/25, 10:53 PM
No, really, this is precisely the sort of thing I've wanted for ages, and I don't have the time or resources to build it myself.
by sedatk on 4/21/25, 11:00 PM
by fortran77 on 4/21/25, 11:53 PM
by xattt on 4/21/25, 10:53 PM
Tangential, but what happened to Intel Claremont, the solar-powered CPU? Did this project go anywhere or was it only a tech demo?
by JoelMcCracken on 4/22/25, 4:35 PM
What I really want is a low power linux laptop that is not entirely without CPU/memory power, so I can program some simple things on it. I don't mind if it has _less_ power, I can use ssh for anything that is overly cpu-hungry.
Ive seen several devices that seem like they might suit my need, but I look at them for long enough and just won't pull the trigger. Either it seems overly much like a walled garden (like, I can program on the device, but it doesn't seem like a suitable spot to write blog posts in emacs for my blog or whatever), or its just too underpowered and I'm sure that 99% of the tools I use already won't work on it.
I wish I had the EE knowledge/confidence to start hacking on this kind of thing. I think its very doable; I was just looking at e.g. https://www.waveshare.com/product/displays/e-paper/epaper-1/...
which is just cheap enough that I could see myself risking buying it without being sure that it will work with my other choices.
Nowadays, I feel like I should be able to run most of what I want on an android device that is built for power, and it should have a fairly long lasting battery because of its design; attach a trackpad, keyboard, and eink display, and my perfect device is here. I don't care if its not the thinnest device in the universe, a swappable battery (or, just load the thing with extra batteries) plus perhaps a portable solar charger would be amazing.
by tomrod on 4/21/25, 10:56 PM
My ideal setup before eyeing the e-ink space was a linux-based netbook and occasional internet access to offload heavy compute to powerful servers. I could see using this sort of setup in a similar fashion.
by d3Xt3r on 4/22/25, 12:20 AM
Also, is there a mention of the refresh rate of the display? I wonder what gaming on it would be like. They provided a screenshot of Test Drive and Wolf3D running on it, but a video would've been nicer.
by sien on 4/22/25, 12:48 AM
To save others doing what I did there is an Android tablet like this called 'Daylight'
by saulpw on 4/21/25, 11:01 PM
by actionfromafar on 4/21/25, 11:35 PM
It could even be implemented to look like some kind of extension card in RAM. You write native instructions to a piece of RAM and call a special (otherwise invalid) 8086 instruction and the native execution kicks in.
Or if you want to make it more ambitious, create a COM or EXE format which indicates that the instructions are really ESP32 native, but with full access to the BIOS functions with some kind of translation layer.
by fuzunoglu on 4/22/25, 1:27 AM
by vaylian on 4/22/25, 1:54 PM
by rasz on 4/21/25, 11:33 PM
you will spend 99 of those hours waiting for screen refresh (1/second).
by rbanffy on 4/22/25, 1:30 PM
by nottorp on 4/22/25, 7:24 AM
No thanks.
by ggm on 4/22/25, 3:31 AM
It wouldn't surprise me if XT was similar. I remember doing a pre-purchase review of DirecTV and the sat management was OS/2, long long after it was deprecated. Same behaviour in aerospace: keep the tech which works. This is why German armed forces were recently commissioning USB compatible SD type storage with insanely huge plugs, and slow interfaces, to replace 8" and 5.25" media for field upgrades of some devices.
by hyperhello on 4/21/25, 11:01 PM
by ofrzeta on 4/23/25, 7:30 PM
https://www.good-display.com/news/80.html
So I guess playing Space Quest a lot will rapidly kill that screen.
by reaperducer on 4/21/25, 10:58 PM
Interesting that they Sharpied-out all of the extraneous keys, except Windows.
by ryao on 4/22/25, 3:55 AM
by andai on 4/22/25, 2:42 AM
There's a bit more latency than I'd like with the typing. Though maybe that could be fixed on eink with partial updates?
For me the main benefit of a device like this would be reading and writing without distractions, so having it run DOOM smoothly would not help me! But I do really want low latency typing...
by fsmv on 4/22/25, 3:43 AM
by api on 4/22/25, 12:28 PM
Outfit it with a LORA modem capable of running one of those peer to peer LORA mesh text messaging protocols.
by badmonster on 4/22/25, 7:13 AM
by bee_rider on 4/22/25, 12:06 AM
The IBM emulation stuff—it is a project, the some 40 year old OS seems quite limiting, but I can see why one might do that for fun. But, the hardware looks like… maybe something folks might actually buy? Maybe only us, here, though, haha.
by ginkgotree on 4/22/25, 2:48 AM
by pjmlp on 4/22/25, 4:42 AM
PS/2 keyboards are early 1990's.
by shdon on 4/22/25, 12:54 AM
by BeefySwain on 4/22/25, 3:34 PM
Just the keyboard. Not the entire unit.
by squigz on 4/22/25, 12:00 AM
by bitwize on 4/22/25, 4:23 AM
by RecycledEle on 4/22/25, 12:32 AM
by fnord77 on 4/22/25, 12:02 AM
I would love an eink laptop like this but with ARM, modern ports and linux
by basemaly on 4/22/25, 1:33 PM
by NullPointerWin on 4/22/25, 1:35 AM
by methuselah_in on 4/22/25, 6:19 AM
by karunamurti on 4/22/25, 12:46 AM