Glider

Why is there no link to the source? The whole point of the article is about that link. Anyways, I found it here: https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider

In normal use, we don't expect fast refresh to significantly reduce an E Ink panel's lifetime. The E Ink material itself is long-lived, the main stress is on the driving electronics and waveform behavior during refreshes. Our approach doesn't add extra refresh cycles, the display starts responding sooner, which improves perceived speed without adding extra refreshes. So far, fast refresh hasn't been the dominant failure mode in our testing. Physical stress, bending, pressure, heat, and moisture are much larger risks. On eye strain: E Ink is reflective and bistable, so a static image doesn't require continuously emitted light. Fast updates can still produce artifacts like flashing, dithering, or ghosting, but that's a different issue from a display that continuously flickers. So I'd say this addresses an important part of the problem, thou

> Maybe you can optimize many of them away (if some parts of the screen don't move, especially if software was rewritten to optimize for the display). Yes, that’s definitely something we want to work toward. As the community grows, we hope to tackle these kinds of optimizations together. > A high power SIMD/NEON arm64 probably could do the job, but I think the Spartan6 is a good choice as well and has more obvious and straightforward parallelism Yes, precisely for the reasons you stated. We also talk more about it below: - https://www.youtube.com/live/okjJURIejIY - https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider?tab=readme-ov-file#desi...

I feel like e-ink displays/EPDs are widely used, but underexplored, by major manufacturers at least. The person behind the Modos project already linked by someone else has put a lot of effort into pushing EPDs to their limits and put together the best technical documentation for EPDs that I know of: https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider EDIT: Here's an older demo of theirs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XduK7wn9SE4

Three years ago, I posted about modding a ThinkPad T480 into an e-ink laptop: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26245563 That turned into a community project and eventually into building our own FPGA-based e-ink display controller to improve refresh speed and reduce ghosting. The result is a dev kit and monitor: open hardware, supports 6–13" monochrome and color e-ink panels over HDMI or USB-C, up to 75 Hz with sub-100 ms latency, and includes a C API. Hardware, firmware, docs and schematics: https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider

Looks like my post got a second chance. I'm not affiliated with the project, but I am an interested e-ink monitor enthusiast. You may be interested to know that this project is a fully open project, all source code, verilog, algorithm documentation and hardware design files are on github: https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider https://gitlab.com/zephray/caster

The dev kit works with most if not all eink panels. You are not limited to the panels shipped in this launch. It is fully open, the full source code, gateware and hardware designs are on github: https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider

Three years ago, I posted here about hacking together a fast e-ink laptop from a T480 because I was tired of spending all day on LCDs. I liked e-ink’s comfort, but it was too slow for day-to-day use. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26245563 That post drew in people, which grew into a community experimenting with ways to make e-ink usable for everyday computing. That project later turned into a company and a multi-year project to make e-ink fast and open. We built our own FPGA-based controller, Caster, and went through multiple iterations to push past e-ink’s usual limits, slow refresh, ghosting, and proprietary controllers. Now, after three years, we’ve launched the Modos Paper Developer Kit and Monitor: the fastest open-hardware e-ink display, with 75 Hz refresh and sub-100 ms latency. It works with 6" to 13.3" mono or color panels

Hi! Thanks for backing us! We made an effort to attend conferences to share the work we’ve been doing. Our repository also has a lot of information https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider We’re working on enclosures, though picture frames also sound like a cool idea!

Bryan, thanks for publishing, this is great work. I'm curious if this this build could fit and swap a 13.3 E-ink screen with display board. Some open source hardware synergy with https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider/tree/main

This and that open source 60fps e-ink display repo from a few days ago on HN makes me think we're about to see an explosion of new tech that is centered around eink type displays: https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider

Very, very, very interesting. It must be this one: https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider

https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider if you're interested in DIY see here

They discuss a lot of this in their linked readme: https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider?tab=readme-ov-file#low-...

For those interested, their readme file has a really great explanation of how e-ink displays work, the ideas behind them, and how they compare to LCDs at various tasks: https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider