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This sounds interesting. Could you shed some light in what hacking a kindle entails? Could I hook up my micro controller to the kindle and use the kindles display? Could I add gpio ports to the kindle and use it as a micro controller?



Thanks for the links, this looks very cool!


Here’s a link to a video I made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oel08SDFyIY

Of course, you can skip the server section and make the IP address point to your local server. Some caveats are you need to use pngcrush to turn the image into a format that the kindle can use.

Link to GitHub: https://github.com/yoonsikp/weather-display


Sure. The kindle runs linux and has a large e-ink display and battery integrated for a good price. You can do many things that you cannot do on a micro controller. For low level stuff you can hook up an esp8266 through wifi.




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