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Originally Posted by jago25_98
Why I'm interested:
1) You can't buy this from a company.
I'm interested in it because I'm looking for a ti
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You'll ONLY buy it from a company:
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When the hardware is ready, you should be able to purchase it from DigiKey. You should be able to fit the device as an eBook reader or experiment with it, if you feel like doing it.
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It's a hobby project. Not a real alternative ereader to 6" Kobo / Amazon Kindle. Also the fact is that most people use their ereader like an oven, TV, DVD player or HiFi. It's an appliance to read ebooks (PDFs are not ebooks).
I've currently:
Palm Z22 (colour LCD, 160 x 160 pixels, 2.3" screen and two ereader apps), Sony PRS350 5", Kindle DXG, Kindle Keyboard, Kindle PW3, Kobo H2O original, Kobo Libra and a weird Binatone with an LCD screen. I have ereader apps or programs on my phone, tablet and laptop.
I've got a lab. I've been customising & patching stuff for 40 years. Also building and programming from scratch. I've no interest in this and very little in Arduino stuff as most can be built in less than an hour in a better form factor on stripboard or matrix board. For simple stuff I use a PIC 18F series and JAL. For more complicated stuff I use ARM or x86 industrial boards and Linux, with a mix of programming languages. I can solder anything except a BGA with an iron, a BGA needs a hot plate and a heat gun. I used a reflow oven years ago; it's for either solder paste or solder where all the SMT parts are placed at once. We screen printed the paste for the whole board and then pick&place all the parts, then oven.
Unless you are an Ardunio style tinkerer (Ardunio is sort of lego for people not wanting to learn design or soldering), this is a pointless project. I use opensource. I've released stuff as open source, but the fact this is open source is irrelevant for reading ebooks.
P.S. The only patch I have at present is the Sleepcover image for the Kindle DXG. I read books or test ebooks I've formatted. I don't need to patch. There are few things that annoy me about the current Kobo FW and Kindle FW, but a 4.3" low resolution screen would be worse.