[fread.ink] What is the status? I would like to use fread.ink to get able again to use a half broken kindle

[vrkej54g at redchan.it]

I would really like to see this project alive. I dont know of any 
FOSS-E-Ink production device. Please dont stop the great work on this 
project.

On 2018-12-08 16:04, vrkej54g at redchan.it wrote:
> Hello. I know about the project for few months and would love to see
> it getting to a working state. Thanks to Juul for the awesome work.
> 
> Why fread.ink is the only way for me to be able to use the kindle i 
> have:
> My kindle have a half-broken screen. I have took i apart. I learned
> that the signals for the screen get send out from above the screen.
> This explains why the top half of the screen is working.
> 
> With the closed source crap from amazon i cant do anything any more
> with this device. Just Free Software can make this device usable
> again.
> 
> What i would like to do with the device: I would like to make a
> wall-stand for it and use it as my ssh/serial-todo-list. The device
> then use power only when i add some new things to my todo list or
> complete some of the things on the list.
> I would like to control it with my Openwrt router that runs 24/7. Its
> not a problem to connect a usb-ttl adapter to the usb-port of my
> router and then use this to write on the e-ink screen of the
> opensourced kindle with model Number D01100.
> 
> Thank you Juul for the great project. Thanks to this project i wont
> have to throw away a working device with half-broken screen when i can
> configure in the software the amount of working pixels of the screen.
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