Might one little change make an e-reader twice as good? Martijn den Hoed thinks so; that’s the reason he has added a second E Ink show to his customized gadget referred to as the Diptyx E-Reader. It folds open identical to a paper e-book, which permits it to show extra content material at one time. This is available in particularly useful for issues like technical content material, the place one usually wants to leap again to revisit one thing one simply learn. And because the gadget may also fold closed, it comes with a built-in case that forestalls the display screen from getting scratched in a backpack.
A peek on the {hardware} (📷: Martijn den Hoed)
The Diptyx E-Reader is powered by an ESP32-S3-N16R8 microcontroller and is provided with twin 5.83-inch 648×480 E Ink black-and-white shows. A pair of 1500 mAh Li-Po batteries hold the gadget working for weeks between recharges, and a 2GB SD card permits for the storage of hundreds of e-books. All the pieces from the {hardware} to the software program and case is absolutely open supply, so you’ll be able to restore or hack the Diptyx E-Reader to your coronary heart’s content material.
The firmware might be custom-made (📷: Martijn den Hoed)
Whereas the connection has not been formally confirmed, this gadget seems to be suspiciously just like the dual-screen e-reader we lined a number of months again. So when you had been drooling over that prototype, however didn’t wish to go to the difficulty of constructing your personal, then the crowdfunding marketing campaign you could have been ready for is lastly right here. Properly, virtually anyway. The undertaking is launching quickly on Crowd Provide, so remember to signal as much as obtain updates if you wish to be one of many first to snag a Diptyx E-Reader.
