Ebook Reader Display Raspberry Pi

I hope this is the correct place to submit my question i wasn t able to find a more suitable sub.

Ebook reader display raspberry pi. This bike computer by david schneider makes use of that trick. I would like to create an e reader using a raspberry pi with an e ink display. The main advantage of an e ink display is that you can leave the display un powered for 99 of the time.

Ok this isn t strictly related to the raspberry pi as such at least not yet but it was because of running the weather station software on the pi that i bought the nook. The waveshare e paper hat comes in numerous display sizes ranging from 1 54 inches to 9 7 inches. I have seen a few teeny e ink displays explicitly for use with the raspberry pi.

I was using the wireless network so i used the result for wlan0 in the example below. Echoes of kindle top of screen controls when reading via browser. However by connecting your kindle to the same network as your raspberry pi you can create a web page accessible to the e reader to display data to your e ink screen.

So you can last a long time on a battery. You can hack your kindle to work as a display for a tiny portable computer like the raspberry pi. Build a better bike computer.

This advantage mostly goes down the drain if you use a raspberry pi. After you have added content to your ebook server you are ready to share it with the rest of your network. The displays themselves require odd voltages and are slightly tricky to drive correctly.

Get the ip address of your raspberry pi by entering ifconfig into the terminal. I grew increasingly frustrated with the lock in aspect of ebook readers. I want to be able to use the nook as a remote display pulling data from the weather station s raspberry pi and displaying it remotely e g.