I wanted an e-ink photo frame. Because these are so expensive, I’ve been thinking about hacking up a rolling box frame where high quality photos can be made into a “roll” and have motors on the top and bottom to roll up to see the next pictures. Perhaps a little diffuseD backlight would even make the printed photo pop a little.
Something like this.
https://m.made-in-china.com/product/Outdoor-Custom-City-Adve...
Don’t know what it is called in English properly to search for such things..
Just been to Taiwan and Japan before. This form factor of e-ink display is super new. I believe it may well be made by one of the Taiwanese shops but badged by Sharp.
e-ink is a big deal in Taiwan right now. The prices should come down fairly steeply in the next year or two.
I saw bus stops with eink posters showing upcoming arrival times in some cities in Taiwan. Not the best choice because refresh is very slow and they are hard to see at night.
> I’ve been thinking about hacking up a rolling box frame where high quality photos can be made into a “roll” and have motors on the top and bottom to roll up to see the next pictures.
This sounds similar to signs I've seen in some malls. I'm not sure what they're called though.
Contrast on color eInk displays isn't great I have one 7 color one and every photo looks a bit washed out and desaturated even when I crank up the contrast. Back in the 90s and early 00s there were frames you could stack a pile of prints into that had a manual mechanism that would advance through the stack.
I got a nice photo printer on Craigslist for $150 that can print 13x19” borderless. I guess you could just print a bunch of flat sheets and make a little stack and just manually swap them from time to time. I am a photographer and I have more photos than wall space so rotating a featured photo sounds kinda nice actually.
Don’t know what it is called in English properly to search for such things..