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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."
I really need to stop mentally pronouncing it "E-squire".
who cares! until the magazine can read to me while I'm on the toilet, and answer my questions, or rebuttal my comments, I don't care how much technology goes into the cover.
Then again if Playboy gets a digital cover that talks dirty to me then I have the option of recanting my previous statement.
'mmmmmmmmm.... forbidden donut'
if someone went and re-flashed all the controllers in the Esquire mags to display porn (first thing that comes to mind is Goatse) instead of the original content?
Um, then it would display goatse.
Well, back to rejecting software patent applications.
Does it run...? Imagine...oh never mind.
CDE open sourced! https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/
Yikes. You need to relax. Go kick back with some Goatse and a beer and mellow out!
"These people look deep within my soul and assign me a number based on the order in which I joined" --Homer re:
Oh! Oh! I know this one! "+5 Insightful because the mods didn't read it either"!
Great. The <blink> tag made it to real life!
Why?? Whyyyyyyyy........??? ;)
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
"Putting this cover together really started seven years ago, when deputy editor Peter Griffin..."
"Hey Lois, Look I'm flashing an Esquire, he he he hehe"
Stewie: "Oh, good going fat man way to show it to the 21st century"
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire.
Then a bunch of artsy fashionistas would parade around saying that gaping anus is the new black.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
Until they are programmable enough.
When I was in middle school, our typing teacher gave repetitive exercises like that, to do at home or in lab. I happened to have a daisy wheel printer at home for my TRS-80 (m4, 32k and 2 drives!), which was basically a - you guessed it! - typewriter.
A for-next loop and homework was done... even trimmed the edges so the perforation marks wouldn't be there to tip her off....
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
That's not an eye...
1995 called - they want their tag back.
and vice versa!
> In the howitworks they seem to have 3 shades: white, black, and grey.
Unlike e-books, which apparently also have 3 shades: light grey, dark grey, and grey.
I think a can of beer would just about fit...
Well, for centuries brave men and women were trained in the arcane arts. Each spend decades learning how to fight the evils that lay beneat. But then there was a budget cut...
Trust me to get the abnormal girlfriend..
which is totally what she said
"They'd have put the usual hot chick on the cover if they wanted to encourage nerds to do their usual jerk off all over the raster."
That would result in a short circuit, electrocuting the nerd. Esquire will be held responsible and go bankrupt.