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Hacking Esquire's E-ink Cover
ptorrone writes "I picked up the Esquire E-inked cover today and took a bunch of high res photos, for the makers out there. It has a programming header, 5-pin ISP, a Microchip PIC 12f629 which is flash programmable, 8 pin, 6 lithium coin cell CR2016s, 3 volts each. Two E-ink screens with flex connections — looks like it was made to be reprogrammed and different screens. The top screen has 11 segments, the bottom has 3. It was designed 2008-06-04. The PCB was made by Forewin, half thickness, 2 layer board (FR4). I think someone out there will likely reflash the PIC and make the segments go on / off at different times and perhaps put other displays on it, there's a little bit of hacking to be had but not that much really."
So, they go through all of this work and expense and come up a cover that is LAME? Wow. Somebody needs to get fired over that cover. Boring.
I don't respond to AC's.
Most of these magazines are going to end up in landfills with all the toxic materials that are in the display, batteries, chips, and PCBs. Thank you Esquire.
OMG blah blah blah...
Toxic today, useful compound tomorrow. Now I'm not suggesting the world go overboard, but life evolves around the materials on earth.
I know it seems that wearing dirty underwear and eating out of communal dishes will save the earth, but that's just the hippie in you being a short sighted idiot.
Modding me -1 troll doesn't make me wrong.
Because you are an idiot and will pay $400 for a Kindle when it costs about $10 to build.
And every time I see something like this I think "Oh how I hate those stupid americans"!
Seriously, stop destroying our world.