For people complaining about price, large eink panels are insanely expensive. The cheapest 13.3" panel with a min order of 1 is around $400-450. That's for a panel with no driver board. If you're interested in an easy diy approach, you can pick up a 10" panel with an arduino hat here for $200 [0]. Although if you step down to normal ereader sizes, you can easily pick up 6-7" panels for around $30 on aliexpress/ebay.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.waveshare.com/product/displays/e-paper/epaper-1/10.3inch-e-paper-hat.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.waveshare.com/product/displays/e-paper/epaper-1/...</a>
That is <i>surprisingly</i> good contrast. Better than I've ever seen e-ink displays produce, and I have on occasion been looking - I'm a photographer and enjoy hanging my own work, and it would be convenient to do so this way.<p>On the other hand, for the same price as the 13.3" version and at the same size, I could print and frame approximately 80-100 photos, even from my gallery-quality inkjet - if I take the quality hit and use the HP AIO where the ink is free, that's about 200-250. (At that point it mainly depends on what kind of bulk rate I can get on the frames!)<p>So the unit economics don't really work out in favor of the ArtFrame here, I feel like. I wish they did!
Very HN question, but are they hackable? I'd love one of these as a daily calendar; I've used an old/decrepit Kindle before for the same sort of thing, but something like this would be much more attractive.<p>I could assemble something myself, I guess, but I've got other projects taking up time and don't mind paying a little bit to turn the physical assembly problem (I'm bad at) into a mostly software problem (I'm mildly better at).
I love e-ink and these look really cool, but yeah, that price. Where are you currently getting your displays? You may be interested in EPDiy [0] (controlling cheap left over Kindle DX screens with an ESP32) and Inkplate [1] for some inspiration on cheaper sourcing.<p>For reference: the 6" Inkplate costs around 100€ and I think you could fairly comfortably build a 10" EPDiy device at around that. That's without all the fanciness of course, with it I reckon it should be possible to sell these things at around 200€ each, which would probably make them a lot more interesting to people.<p>That said: I'm excited for color e-ink screens appearing on the market. The amount of devices released lets me hope at least some will make it to a secondary market.<p>[0]: <a href="https://hackaday.io/project/168193-epdiy-976-e-paper-controller" rel="nofollow">https://hackaday.io/project/168193-epdiy-976-e-paper-control...</a>
[1]: <a href="https://inkplate.io/" rel="nofollow">https://inkplate.io/</a>
350 euros for 6 inch? 450 for 9 inch‽‽<p>Just buy some very cheaply-available electronic price tags [1] and use open-source firmware[2] which supports greyscale + yellow. Save literally <i>HUNDREDS</i> of dollars/euros/etc. For extra credit, they are not only black and white eInk screens, they are BWY, so they can add a splash of yellow!<p>[1] <a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?LH_Auction=0&_nkw=Chroma74" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?LH_Auction=0&_nkw=Chroma74</a><p>[2] <a href="http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=29.%20eInk%20Price%20Tags" rel="nofollow">http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=29.%20eInk%20Price%20Ta...</a>
I would love a SIM variation of this -- where instead of uploading pictures via the frame's wifi hotspot, I could send the frame to grandparents and upload online and they'd get downloaded onto the frame via international SIM card.
Too expensive. Can probably buy several dozen nice color prints for that price and swap them manually. Sure you lose the tech / geek factor but for that eye-watering cost, I think it’s worth it.
Are the listed dimensions correct?<p>On the <a href="https://framelabs.eu/en/technische-daten/" rel="nofollow">https://framelabs.eu/en/technische-daten/</a> page both the 6″ and the 9.7″ is listed as being 222×309 mm, which is roughly the size of DIN A4.<p>On the <a href="https://framelabs.eu/en/artframes/" rel="nofollow">https://framelabs.eu/en/artframes/</a> page, however, there's a clear difference in size between all models.<p>Could you check the sizes, please?
I made a photo frame for my mum out of my old iPad, just found a frame the right size and stuck it around the edge. So long as you keep it plugged in it works great. The family just adds images to a shared iCloud library and they appear on there automatically, in full color, and it cost me just the frame and not getting the pitiful recycling / resale fee for an old iPad.
A very relevant thread from four months ago about why e-ink is so insanely expensive: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26143407" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26143407</a>