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Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

This is a bunch of stuff that you can order from Adafruit, so idk where Steam comes into it.

Also the screen is 5.83" which is a yawner. It's a drag that e-ink screens are still all so small. Wake me up when there's an affordable 14 inch one or larger, that doesn't take 20+ seconds to refresh. 1 second is tolerable. Motion video is not required.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Blame patents. E-Ink is under the thumb of one company and using patents they block any and all competition and thus most innovation.

[–] AppleMango@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

afaik it's very possible to make e-inks with 20+fps, but the microcontroller used to power the display isn't powerful enough. I'll link the yt vid if I can find it.

found it: https://youtu.be/nHbA2-_qzH4

it's a 60 fps colour e-ink display

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah trouble is those use a lot of power, from what I heard. I'm satisfied with a usable e-reader that can flip pages at tolerable speed.

[–] AppleMango@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Well I would assume less powerful ones should take up less power. Also, don't normal LED displays also require this, or sometimes more computation to calculate the pixels?