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Old 10-24-2012, 12:56 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by petrucci View Post
In my quest for a large e-ink screen, I came across replacement e-ink screens. I was hoping to create an array of such screens. Two 9.7 inch screens are roughly 8.5 by 11 inches.

The problems is that I am lacking hardware to run the screens. Freescale makes a display card, but it only runs a single screen. The card is also expensive. Quite surprisingly e-ink themselves have not been helpful.
Where are the replacement? How much do they cost? My DXG needs a screen.

I plan to make an array (wall) of eink displays, using my K3 (and other) demo kindles.

You can use a VNC client (or similar screen-sharing app). There are some available for various kindle models. Or you can proxy the raw framebuffer with netcat.

EDIT: It may be possible to drive an eink screen directly with output pins (from an arduino or rasbpi, or whatever). But you would need a logic analyzer and some signal and protocol analysis skill to figure out the eink pinout and commands to send to it.

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