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A display technology that uses electric fields to move particles within a viscous fluid, also known as Electro-Phoresis. E-Ink is one particular brand name. E-ink has the advantages of low power and persistent display (once power is removed).

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Why does "flashing" prevent ghosting on E-Ink displays?

Anybody who owns an E-Ink device (like a Kindle) will be familiar with the phenomenon of "flashing" -- basically, when turning a page, the device will first flip all of the pixels to black, then draw a "negative" of the page, and then invert the…
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How electronic price tag works?

Today I was in Tesco in my city and I saw something quite interesting, that was electronic price tag: I don't know how it happend, but on a parking I found this price tag in my basket beneath some old papers and leaflets... It was very late, so I…
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what are some dirt cheap, small e-ink displays?

I'm looking for an e-ink display (pixel-based) that is as cheap as humanly possible, and tiny, yet still a fully pixel-based display that can refresh within a hundred milliseconds. The "custom display" products from Aveso are almost what I am…
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How does E-Ink Work?

Can someone explain how this really works? I don't understand those bubbles, and how you get different colors on this type of screen, or it is only black&white, does it works similar to capacitive and resistive cellphone touch displays? How they…
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Why not use monochrome LCDs instead of E-ink?

Recently I've been reading about E-ink displays and the benefit over LCDs, as I understand it, is that there is no backlight in E-ink displays and thus, physical light is reflected, making reading under direct sunlight possible. However, this got me…
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Gumstix with an e-ink screen

I really want to develop on a gumstix with an e-ink display, but $3000 for a development board is a bit steep for me right now, especially since I just want to get a prototype out so I can see what the market is like. As a work-around, this is what…
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Do transparent electronic paper displays exist as a commercial product?

Is there a such thing as a transparent electronic paper display that is commercially available ? I've found that Samsung has a transparent LCD, but I haven't been able to find any examples of transparent e-paper.
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Single cell e-ink type components?

I'd like to make my own binary watch, and something pretty small. Using surface mount LEDs would work but they use a lot of energy (~30mA a piece for something I'd consider reasonably bright) so there'd have to be a mechanism to "show the…
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Building An E-Ink Wall

The Idea When I heard about Mirasol and Electrowetting the first time, I considered this techniques to be useful for building a wall-hung touch screen where you can show notes, calendarings, drawings and so forth. The advantage would be that you can…
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What factors are limiting form factor of e-ink displays?

Please help me understand what engineering problems are currently limiting e-ink displays from reaching sizes let's say comparable to sizes of standard LCD screens. I originally thought there are business reasons only (that minimum of folks would…
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Large to medium size e-Ink Display for prototyping

I have been doing research in finding various raw screens for prototyping, stuff like e-ink, color e-ink and OLED screens. Then I saw this earlier post: Gumstix with an e-ink screen So after one year since the original post by @tjameson, has anyone…
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What are some of the segmented displays with the lowest power consumption?

I have to select a low-power display for a solar-powered digital clock. I have looked into numerous technologies, including e-ink. However, I was still unable to compare between them due to the lack of online information regarding average power…
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Hacking an e-paper price tag

I've got an e-paper price tag from a friend of mine and I'd like to know if it's possible to change the display contents? On the back it says its a Solu M from 2017, model number ST-GM29MT1. I haven't found much information about it online, and I…
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Problems understanding a MOSFET Switch

I'm currently dealing with a circuit for communication between a Microcontroller and an e-ink Display. It uses an SPI-Bus. The display is from PervasiveDisplays, and at the bottom of this website http://www.pervasivedisplays.com/kits/ext_kit there…
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ARM and dual e-ink displays

Is it possible to have an ARM SBC drive two e-ink displays? With the low costs e-readers like the B&N Nook Touch, I am interested in buying two just to extract the e-ink displays. The only problem is I don't know how to go about getting an ARM SBC…
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