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Old 08-22-2025, 07:07 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by rkomar View Post
Do these tags even have the electronic backplanes for driving the display? I always imagined that they would be a bare e-ink layer and the "gun" would provide the electromagnetic fields to set what they display.
You may want to check various items on the Internet on hacking eInk price tags. Two I found useful were Hacking eInk Price Tags and a set of articles on Hackaday at e-ink price tag from years back.

The one I played with used a NFC connection so you had to walk around the store to update each tag.
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