GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video]

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41 points | by pizzaiolo 3 hours ago

6 comments

  • Lerc 1 hour ago
    This is insane. Almost everything done here to make things fast were things that I had assummed that e-ink displays aready did, because they are so slow, I figured their behaviour was the best that could be achieved after trying all these kind of tricks.

    It makes me what other things could be much better if they received some attention from someone who cares about it.

  • aix1 56 minutes ago
    Great work. I loved the technical innovations.

    For the grayscale, I'm guessing each physical display would need to be individually calibrated? I also wonder whether the calibration is sensitive to environmental factors, i.e. gets out of whack if the display is too hot or too cold.

    • eternauta3k 37 minutes ago
      Or with aging.

      There has to be a reason the e-ink industry hasn't done this yet...

  • y1n0 1 hour ago
    I don’t know if this particular display is magnetic particles or not, but epaper is not synonymous with eink. Something can be called epaper and still be lcd based. So I feel the video is misleading by declaring epaper is particle based.
    • Lerc 53 minutes ago
      Ok I'm confused now. So is this thing considered epaper, eink, both or neither?

      Is one a subset of the other? If so which is the superset?

      • y1n0 30 minutes ago
        E ink is a trademark name for electrophoretic displays (magnetic particles) by the company also called E ink.

        E-paper is an informal category that anyone can use for any display type.

        The display in this video/article is also electrophoretic, but not all displays called e-paper are and it’s aggravating. An example: https://kentdisplays.com/products/color-epaper-displays/

  • larodi 31 minutes ago
    Dither and LUTs - my best friends on ESP32 and paper. Great work also!
  • tomtomistaken 1 hour ago
    Amazing project, thank you! Keep us updated!
  • hobo123 23 minutes ago
    Amazing. Now I want my Kindle to use this driver and run stock Android.