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Power efficient dashboard for Kindle 4 NT devices

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E-ink is so Retropunk | Aug 2023
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Some Kindles can easily be jailbroken [1]. I have two jailbroken Kindle 4 devices and they're still great. Both for reading (though you have to sideload books) and as e-ink dashboards [2]. A Kindle 4 can run for ~ 28 days on a single charge, refreshing the screen every hour.

[1] https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle4NTHacking#Jailbreak

[2] https://github.com/pascalw/kindle-dash
Building an E-Ink weather display for our home | Nov 2022
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Indeed! And with the help of PascalW's kindle-dash, I did just that with a leftover Kindle.

https://github.com/pascalw/kindle-dash
Inky Impression 5.7“ – Colour e-ink display for Raspberry Pi | Aug 2022
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I actually repurposed an old Kindle to do just that, via kindle-dash[0]

Every 15 minutes it makes a cURL to an endpoint that gets my agenda, some news headlines, the weather, etc., and uses Puppeteer (I think) to return an image for the kindle to display.

[0] https://github.com/pascalw/kindle-dash
CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet | Mar 2021
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The stopgap solution for this is pascalw's kindle-dash[1]. I set it up on my jailbroken kindle and now it displays some headlines, my google calendar events, and the weather (via OpenWeatherMap API)

Last time it was on HN: [2]

[1] https://github.com/pascalw/kindle-dash

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25939042
Show HN: QueryCal – calculate metrics from your calendars using SQL | Feb 2021
Hey HN, I built this project because last year I did a terrible job of actually taking time off work and needed a way to see just how overdue I was to take a day off.

Because so much is already automatically tracked in my calendar (e.g. the HR system adds calendar events for booked holiday), I just needed a way to query it to get the metrics I wanted.

Originally I used a Go MySQL implementation to evaluate queries but it was a bit buggy and didn’t support all the SQL I wanted. Now I’m using a full SQLite database for each user so you can really do some gnarly queries (recursive CTEs, window functions, the works).

Personally, I’m using QueryCal as a Grafana datasource to power a dashboard that’s displayed on an old Kindle on my desk (using this great project: https://github.com/pascalw/kindle-dash).

Feedback Welcome: I am developing an e-paper calendar as a consumer product | Feb 2021
You will have to compete with much cheaper ideas like this kindle-based dashboard https://github.com/pascalw/kindle-dash

discussed a while ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25939042