The-Open-Book

Not really what you’re looking for but close https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

Have you seen the "Open Book" project? https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

>I really wish I could have an e-reader, but again, I don't want to spend money on things that will lock me into a single vendor indefinitely and might just arbitrarily go away. https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book This may be up your alley.

This is very useful to see examples of how people have used APIs that are either poorly documented or not at all. Or even that are well documented, really. Going from docs to code is not always straightforward. To give you just one example, recently I've been using it to find how people have written code to interface with e-ink displays. I usually have the datasheet which lists all the commands the protocol support, but building it all into a valid startup sequence of ~20 commands to activate the display is left as an exercise for the reader. So the docs will look like this: https://www.waveshare.com/w/upload/6/6a/4.2inch-e-paper-spec... And what I need is a sequence like this: https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book/blob/5c5054c58...

https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book/wiki/Open-Book... you should have a late night design session anyway. it sounds fun

Worth highlighting the Open Book Project [1], an open source e-reader hardware design and software stack. The design is open, and you can make your own with commodity parts. People are starting to sell PCBs, and complete devices. It has its own open software stack, and I hope will have a variety of vendors in the coming years. Ofc the e-ink patent issues remain, but this goes some of the way to solve things at the e-reader level. [1] https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

First time I ever saw one of these was in this neat little project: https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book I'm always delighted to see new open hardware projects, they always feel rare to me, and I'm stoked there are things like the feather making it marginally easier.

Why don't you repurpose cheap e-book readers, such as Kobo, which run Linux? https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Debian_Linux_on_a_Kobo or BQ Cervantes: https://github.com/bq/cervantes or you can root the Nook e-reader running Android or you can check out the Open Book Project: https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

There's Open Book open source e-ink reader. Not sure how usable it is. https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book The next model is planned to use the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller https://twitter.com/josecastillo/status/1356125145681846276

How DIY are you looking for? The Open Book reader is a pretty neat project. https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

Have you checked out this project [1]? I found this one yesterday too. It’s a project working on an ebook built from various microcontrollers. [1] https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

This may interest you; might not be what you were asking for. I haven't built one, but keep an eye on it and dream of free time to surface mount solder and poke around with it. The repo used to have a cost estimate and think it came out to around $100 but my memory may be fuzzy. https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

Not directly related but there's an awesome "Open Book" project which is an open source hardware e-book reader [1]. [1] https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book