Hi! I'm writing this note because what I'm about to do is unfortunately going to ping some folks with an email, and I want to explain what's happening.
I'm planning to do more work on the Open Book next year. I have a new design and roadmap that's far more streamlined and simplified; it reflects significant lessons learned since the first iterations of the Open Book in 2019, and I want to make the main branch of the repository reflect what comes next instead of what came before. As such, this pull request will remove most of what was in the original repository. It has been archived in a branch called original, and all the old designs and code will remain there.
I also want to reset the issues and pull requests to reflect the project's needs going forward. Issues accumulated and went unaddressed both during the pandemic years and my 2022 spent working on Sensor Watch. I sense that many of these issues may not be relevant going forward, so this pull request will close all outstanding issues as well. I'm sorry about that, and if you feel strongly that your issue is unresolved and still relevant to the new Open Book, feel free to reopen it.
The new Open Book design is a simplified version using the Raspberry Pi Pico. It has a very minimal part count, and it's much easier to hand solder. There are some notes on assembling the board here, and you can buy the Open Book castellated e-paper driver module at the Oddly Specific Objects shop (U.S. shipping only).
The new Open Book firmware is called libros, and it lives in its own separate repository. While it's still very pre-alpha software, it does function well enough to read books and store your place in them between sessions; I'm reading a novel on one prototype right now, and IMO it's a joy to use.
In the coming weeks, I plan to offer a limited number of full kits on the shop for shipping within the United States. I'll announce that on Mastodon when they are ready. Come next year, I hope that folks will join me in building their own Open Books, hacking on the firmware, and realizing the vision of an electronic book you can build yourself.
Hi! I'm writing this note because what I'm about to do is unfortunately going to ping some folks with an email, and I want to explain what's happening.
I'm planning to do more work on the Open Book next year. I have a new design and roadmap that's far more streamlined and simplified; it reflects significant lessons learned since the first iterations of the Open Book in 2019, and I want to make the main branch of the repository reflect what comes next instead of what came before. As such, this pull request will remove most of what was in the original repository. It has been archived in a branch called original, and all the old designs and code will remain there.
I also want to reset the issues and pull requests to reflect the project's needs going forward. Issues accumulated and went unaddressed both during the pandemic years and my 2022 spent working on Sensor Watch. I sense that many of these issues may not be relevant going forward, so this pull request will close all outstanding issues as well. I'm sorry about that, and if you feel strongly that your issue is unresolved and still relevant to the new Open Book, feel free to reopen it.
The new Open Book design is a simplified version using the Raspberry Pi Pico. It has a very minimal part count, and it's much easier to hand solder. There are some notes on assembling the board here, and you can buy the Open Book castellated e-paper driver module at the Oddly Specific Objects shop (U.S. shipping only).
The new Open Book firmware is called libros, and it lives in its own separate repository. While it's still very pre-alpha software, it does function well enough to read books and store your place in them between sessions; I'm reading a novel on one prototype right now, and IMO it's a joy to use.
In the coming weeks, I plan to offer a limited number of full kits on the shop for shipping within the United States. I'll announce that on Mastodon when they are ready. Come next year, I hope that folks will join me in building their own Open Books, hacking on the firmware, and realizing the vision of an electronic book you can build yourself.
- Joey