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Would probably look even better in color eink
Absolutely, hopefully that's a V2 thing.
I was just thinking that. It's a cool idea but unfortunately it looks very much like what it is - a flash cart with a screen on it. Eink would've been a much better choice. Scaling rather than cropping the label, make the cart white so the unused eink display blends in a little better... could've been awesome instead of merely cool.
That's a thing??
Has been for about 15 years, although decent ones didn't come out until 10 years ago.
Huh, TIL. Crazy that I've never encountered them.
I've only ever seen one IRL, and it was insane how much like actual paper it looked.
That's fucking cool. I'll have to look more into it.
I think they've got a number of drawbacks, so that's why. IIRC they have a low refresh rate, and they're pretty pricy. For this application, where it's a small screen and you only need the one, and you'll only refresh it rarely, it makes sense though.
Worse refresh rate than B&W e-ink even?
Too slow
How often do you expect to refresh the cover art?
Oh, nevermind