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jaw00001 · 07-28-2012, 01:46 AM

Hi All,

I'm checking to see if there's any prior art around converting a kindle into an external, USB-connected display for a PC. At the end of the day, what I want to have is a C# application running on a Windows machine that can display simple graphics (lines, rectangles, etc.) and characters on a jailbroken kindle. It doesn't have to be a full-blown graphics device from the perspective of Windows -- in fact, the easiest way that comes to mind would be to have it exposed as a USB drive and have a program running on the kindle that periodically picks up a file from a well-known location and renders it on the screen -- either HTML if there's a browser component on the Kindle that can be repurposed or some simple custom format.

Anyway, since I thought of it, I assume it's already been done, and done better than I could manage in a weekend. Anyone know where to find it?

(If you really want to know the end use of this, it's to display some navigation info on my boat, cheaply, and in full sunlight.)

07-28-2012, 01:46 AM	#1
jaw00001 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: Kindle	Kindle -> External ePaper Display Hi All, I'm checking to see if there's any prior art around converting a kindle into an external, USB-connected display for a PC. At the end of the day, what I want to have is a C# application running on a Windows machine that can display simple graphics (lines, rectangles, etc.) and characters on a jailbroken kindle. It doesn't have to be a full-blown graphics device from the perspective of Windows -- in fact, the easiest way that comes to mind would be to have it exposed as a USB drive and have a program running on the kindle that periodically picks up a file from a well-known location and renders it on the screen -- either HTML if there's a browser component on the Kindle that can be repurposed or some simple custom format. Anyway, since I thought of it, I assume it's already been done, and done better than I could manage in a weekend. Anyone know where to find it? (If you really want to know the end use of this, it's to display some navigation info on my boat, cheaply, and in full sunlight.)