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Originally Posted by shawly
Hanging a RaspberryPi, powerbank, display and a keyboard onto a fridge also doesn't look very pleasing.
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I've produced many custom terminals. It's not hard to fit it all in a nice case and get at the plug sockets ONCE to wire the power. One I did used a 4 x 4 key pad, 4 coloured buttons under the 2 line x 16 character display, with bottom line labelling the coloured buttons. It actually used a 486 compatible industrial controller, NiMH for 30 minutes operation if power failed and mini-PCI WiFi card. All the SW on a CF card and using a shell script plus a C program on Linux.
A browser and graphics panel is overkill. But if you want skinny, you need to hack a Kobo. You could just use it as a terminal over WiFi or via USB Internet (which would power it, I've used USB from the living room TV to a computer in a shed using one USB repeater) Note in this application it probably needs external power!
See also
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=313811