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murraypaul · 01-27-2021, 05:41 AM

Arrived at 09:30 this morning, having only ordered it at 18:30 on the 25th. And that was with free delivery, very impressed by DigiKey.

Not going to have a chance to have much of a play with it until Friday, but initial impressions are that this is a very good value bit of development/prototyping kit, at only 60 quid.

I would echo the warnings above, do not buy this thinking it is an eReader, it is not. Out of the box it doesn't do anything at all. This is for people who want to do some eInk development, and are comfortable programming in C++, which is currently the only option.

Edit: Add photo.

01-27-2021, 05:41 AM	#16
murraypaul Interested Bystander Posts: 3,726 Karma: 19728152 Join Date: Jun 2008 Device: Note 4, Kobo One	Arrived at 09:30 this morning, having only ordered it at 18:30 on the 25th. And that was with free delivery, very impressed by DigiKey. Not going to have a chance to have much of a play with it until Friday, but initial impressions are that this is a very good value bit of development/prototyping kit, at only 60 quid. I would echo the warnings above, do not buy this thinking it is an eReader, it is not. Out of the box it doesn't do anything at all. This is for people who want to do some eInk development, and are comfortable programming in C++, which is currently the only option. Edit: Add photo. Attached Thumbnails Last edited by murraypaul; 01-27-2021 at 12:19 PM.