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On 04/02/2022 11:11, Michael Everitt wrote:
I was going to mainly use it as an e-reader with the option to do slowish web page access. I really wanted to see what I could do with low power as part of investigating my Carrington Machine (something that can be booted up from PV or hand crank after something like the recent Tonga thing and provide info on how to get going again)On 04/02/2022 10:54, Tom via list wrote:Just got an old kindle which may have battery problems but the screen seems OK. Wondering about upcycling it to screen for a Pi-Zero-W.Any experience/thoughts? Tom te tom te tomTwo things spring to mind for me :- video bandwidth is pretty high for -any- screen, so how are you expecting to 'connect' it ? - if you need to dismantle it, they're frequently glued together, so you need some specialist tools if you're hoping to re-house it with the Pi-Zero.That said, I may have mentioned I have a similar project, for which I bought a 10" touchscreen panel from Taiwan (At the time, for a price) which had an HDMI converter board attached. I was going to 'tie' it to a Banana-Pi-Zero (quad-core) but as the project hasn't quite 'taken-off' yet .. (Fab Lab and Covid) .. I will likely deploy a Rpi-Zero-2W for the further improvement in CPU/GPU capability.Would be interested to see how you get on - but tbh, I'd probably buy a cheap display off-the-shelf, that will readily interface, and may already have a practical housing ready-to-go....Cheers, Michael / veremitz.
I've looked for cheap Paper displays of shelf and the cheapest way to get one is in a kindle. A second hand one is even cheaper!
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