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It does seem pretty viable, TRMNL are pretty popular:

https://usetrmnl.com

I made some stuff of mine for that display too, but the easiest way is to just use TRMNL's firmware, as it supports autoupdates and a few other nice features.

Here's mine:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/making-a-trmnl-device/

Plus this:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/making-the-timeframe/

And a few more things I never wrote about.

The Kindle project is just because I have a few Kindles lying around, so I might as well use them!






That's beautiful, thanks for sharing. I was wondering what may be the best way to do frames. Custom frames, here in Singapore, are a bit expensive relative to the rest of the parts.

3D printing is one good way, the other way I used is just to get a frame from IKEA and 3D print the inside white bit to my exact dimensions, which worked beautifully.

I should post that build too, with some photos, I really like it.




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