Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform
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Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform
I fancied getting an eink screen to use for future projects. I bought a wee one with a raspberry pi "hat" attached. However, I realised later that I could maybe just re-purpose an old Amazon Kindle ebook reader. I've messed with Kindles before, ages ago: I ported an Infocom interpreter and a Manga reader to…
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Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform
I fancied getting an eink screen to use for future projects. I bought a wee one with a raspberry pi "hat" attached. However, I realised later that I could maybe just re-purpose an old Amazon Kindle ebook reader. I've messed with Kindles before, ages ago: I ported an Infocom interpreter and a Manga reader to…
adq (blog.lidskialf.net)
So, off to ebay I went! I saw a number of really cheap ones marked “BLOCKED BY AMAZON”; I decided not to go for these since theoretically they might have been stolen. In the end, I went for £7 Kindle 4 “non-touch”.
A few days later, it turned up. And I discovered why it might have been so cheap: its stuck in some sort of unquittable demo mode:
This makes me wonder the unit might have been stolen from a retail demo display.
Still, the content of the article is wonderful. I really like the author's marriage of both the hardware and software aspects. I had no idea that an RS-232 interface was exposed off 3 soldier pads inside the unit. That certainly makes it a great place to start, but as the author shows a lot more knowledge (that the author had) was necessary.
A really interesting read!
