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Old 07-22-2016, 06:35 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by luckytriple6 View Post
Quite a while ago, multiple years now I'm sure(shortly after receiving my first RPi B+ as a gift)... I somehow heard of the KindleBerry Pi! In all honesty I think I was trying to find out(I mean googling) if there was any way I could use the e-ink screen scrapped from an original kindle(The white plastic one with the weird silver loading bar aside the e-ink screen....) with a RPi B+ as it's primary display ....
Quite easy to use a bare eink screen using a handful of GPIO pins, if all you need is pure black and white pixels. Gray pixels get complicated due to eink oil viscosity variations requiring timing adjustments.

I posted links to simple eink hardware interfacing in another thread ("K1 Spelunking", I think). I will post them here when I find them.

Coincidentally, the original kindle is what we call a K1.

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