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2Gkashmiri on Feb 9, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk developme...

if anyone can sell these as "refurbished" boards, i would like to buy a few like that recent guy who bought like 200 Rpis and fixed them and sold them for charity. it would be a good thing to bring these old devices out of the trashcan

nickt on Feb 9, 2021 | [–]

e-radionica on Crowdsupply are recycling old Kindle screens for their Inkplate 6 and 10 displays.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/e-radionica

eeZah7Ux on Feb 9, 2021 | | [–]

...at $99 and $129 each (!)

2Gkashmiri on Feb 9, 2021 | | | [–]

this is nice. i will certainly look this up

eloeffler on Feb 9, 2021 | [–]

Might be relevant for you: There also appears to be a way of reusing broken e-ink displays as DIY segment displays.

Summary on Hackaday: https://hackaday.com/2017/04/12/can-you-build-an-e-ink-displ...

and the russian-language article it refers to: http://we.easyelectronics.ru/HomeTech/izgotovlenie-segmentno...

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