Ask HN: Good large format (>20 inches) touchscreen E-Paper display options?

24 points | by foota 12 hours ago

5 comments

  • dv35z 9 hours ago
    I'm still on the search for A5-sized E-ink screen, with HDMI or USB-C input (diagonoal: 25 cm / 10 inches diagonally).

    I'm wanting to build a solar-powered e-ink laptop - so you can write / code in the sun. Mint Debian under the hood.

    Open to ideas - trying to keep everything open-source architecture.

    • ThrowawayR2 2 hours ago
      The only currently similar available product is the Dasung Paperlike 103 but they warn that the it's not safe to expose it to the UV in direct sunlight. You'd need to jury-rig a UV filter over it I'd think.
    • 0x20cowboy 6 hours ago
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  • dlcarrier 9 hours ago
    This guy is the king of driving e-ink displays, although the current run is only 13.3 inch: https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-flow

    I have an e-ink phone from Bigme, and their refresh rates are pretty good to, but their only >20 inch display doesn't have touch support: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807215559517.html

  • ThrowawayR2 10 hours ago
    E-Ink's own site doesn't list any display modules that is larger than 13 inches that also has touch ( https://www.eink.com/product/epaper?search[]=16 ) so it's unlikely there is such a thing. Neither of the e-ink monitor makers, Dasung and Onyx Boox, list touch capability on their 25.3 inch monitors either.
  • mrheosuper 11 hours ago
    It won't be cheap for sure. If you just want 1 for personal project, better to buy of the shell eink monitor(i remember dasung has one) and gut it.
  • xiaoyu2006 11 hours ago
    Sony DPT-RP1? Some are jailbreak-able.