'Open Book', an open source e-book device that you can make yourself with a soldering iron



There are various devices suitable for reading, such as Amazon's

Kindle , Rakuten's Kobo , and Apple's iPad , but these devices are basically used in association with the e-book store operated by the publisher. It is recommended to do so. ' Open Book ' is an open source ebook device that you can make yourself with a soldering iron, created with the aim of supporting books globally.

GitHub --joeycastillo / The-Open-Book
https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

The Open Book at the time of completion is as follows. Adafruit's FEATHER compatible dedicated board ' Open Book A1 Rev 06 ' based on SAMD51 , the screen part is a 4.2 inch electronic paper display with a partial refresh function driven by a dedicated SPI bus, and the operation part is up, down, left and right direction buttons・ Select button ・ Page turn button ・ Lock button, microSD slot is connected to the main SPI bus, 2 types of LED lights that show the status such as charging status, 2MB flash chip & Neopixel for CircuitPython support, for audio book A headphone jack, an audio combo jack with a microphone input for voice operation, and a highly expandable STEMMA and Air Lift Feather Wing port are connected.



You can refer to the BOM from the following page. The total price did not seem to be stated because there is no store where you can get all the parts at once, and the price of each part differs depending on the store.

Open-Book on Kitspace
https://kitspace.org/boards/github.com/joeycastillo/the-open-book/open-book/



Open Book is the 2020 winner of the 'Take Flight with Feather ' self-made board contest for Adafruit's FEATHER sponsored by Hackaday, a website for hacking and DIY. What I submitted to the contest at that time was a self-made e-book device called 'The E-Book Feather Wing' which is a prototype version of Open Book, and this person has released a commentary movie that the author Joey Castillo himself assembles. increase.

Building the E-Book FeatherWing --YouTube


in Mobile,   Hardware,   Video, Posted by darkhorse_log