Trmnl Kindle
Turn an old Kindle into a TRMNL e-ink dashboard.
By usetrmnl
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Overview
A guide that jailbreaks a Kindle with WinterBreak and turns it into a TRMNL e-ink dashboard. It has been tested on 10th- and 12th-generation Kindles.
How it works
You put the Kindle in airplane mode and run the WinterBreak jailbreak (based on Mesquito, which does not work on firmware 5.18.1 or later). Then you install the TRMNL package, which fetches and shows dashboard images. The README now recommends TRMNL's newer KOReader method as faster and more reliable.
Hardware
- Jailbroken Kindle
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