12/26/2025 at 12:42:02 PM
by fanf2
12/30/2025 at 1:05:48 PM
I've tried these in the past but always found the software/firmware side of it too fiddly for the reward (against the grain for a lot of people, I know), which is a pity as the hardware side is really rewarding (for me).Recently, doing it with Claude Code was a breeze. If you are more interested in the outcome than the process, then I'd say it's a great time to buy a few old Kindles and see what you can create with them.
by sails
12/30/2025 at 5:16:19 PM
I've never really had the patience to fiddle a lot of with the hardware but have always wanted to use e-ink screens for working, specially on the move. (Tried the hacks for remarkable pro with a friend's recommendations, ultimately never kept using it).The boox palma with android + (obsidian | termux + tailscale) when I need it has actually worked out well for me for writing | programming with a portable keyboard (nuphy). I even did this year's Advent of Code on it. (https://knlb.dev/logs/aoc25 has some photos)
by knlb
12/30/2025 at 1:09:05 PM
Serial might have been a bit unnecesary here, since there are USB hacks you can exploit to achieve the same over at mobileread.You also might want to turn off some background scripts in /etc/init.rc/ such as the screensaver, unload the audio/mic, stop the window manager if you're not using it, and stop the webreader.
https://github.com/pascalw/kindle-dash/blob/main/src/dash.sh
by tetris11
12/27/2025 at 12:25:07 AM
The kindle system is a joy to dig around in. The UI‘s based on X, awesome WM, GTK and a bunch of mostly unobfuscated shell scripts and JS.One thing I‘d love would to find a way to make it wake up every once in a while to turn it into an auto-refreshing display. I haven’t found a way to do so without external hardware (which could save a lot of power by not having to wake the whole system, but I think the wakeup can’t be triggered via the serial port and other contacts aren’t as easily accessible).
by solarkraft
12/30/2025 at 1:11:13 PM
the rtc clock can be told to wakeup at specific times from software, and the hardware buttons do usually.wake the device toohttps://github.com/pascalw/kindle-dash/blob/c83842e7561340e9...
by tetris11
12/27/2025 at 9:19:56 PM
(2021) At the time (373 points, 95 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26073463In 2022 (159 points, 24 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32293238
by gnabgib
12/30/2025 at 5:20:45 PM
I broke my old kindle when trying to open it. His nice description on how to get inside would have been a big help…by fortran77
12/30/2025 at 12:45:20 PM
While cool, ultimately not usable due to the very limited hardware.by Jemm
12/30/2025 at 5:17:39 PM
Limited hardware is exactly why it is usable. Many e-ink devices exist now so limiting factors such as refresh rates etc, need to be considered when developing apps for android etc nowadays.by ktallett
12/30/2025 at 5:24:54 PM
They might be maining that it requires a specific ereader model rather than being generic, but I'm not sure that really applies either. Kindles, even any specific single model of kindle, are generally readily available.by Brian_K_White
12/30/2025 at 9:22:22 PM
Usable enough to run a Linux DE on it! I did so on my blog: https://nns.ee/kindleby xx_ns
12/26/2025 at 7:10:08 PM
*an eink development platform c:by Natfan
12/30/2025 at 3:27:08 PM
Would be nice to use as an interface to interact with Claude Code.by mfalcon