Life Dashboard
A low-power everyday-life dashboard on a hacked Kindle.
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Overview
A low-power heads-up display for everyday life running on a second-hand Kindle, now in its second version after years of daily use.
How it works
Version 2 is written in Go and uses FBInk for text layout and image output on the Kindle's e-ink screen. The rewrite moved away from a Rust front end that needed a cross-compiling toolchain, after weather APIs the dashboard depended on kept shutting down.
Hardware
- Hacked Kindle
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