Bear in mind the nice previous PDAs or Private Digital Assistants that folks used for taking notes, protecting schedules, protecting a tab on contacts, and such stuff? Here’s what could be mentioned as a contemporary tackle the PDAs of yore however with a twist. As Hackaday revealed, this one comes with an E Ink show, a secondary OLED panel, and a keypad made of soppy silicon that’s encased inside a see-through case. It has been designed and developed by Ashtf and may solely perform as a note-taking system in its present kind.
The system comes powered by an ESP32-S3 processor and helps Wi-Fi 4 and Bluetooth 4.2. The bigger E Ink panel serves as the first show and isn’t backlit, which implies it will depend on the ambient gentle for its readability. The show is monochrome and has excessive distinction, which makes all the pieces look sharp and crisp.
Nevertheless, because the E Ink show has a low refresh price, developer Ashtf has devised an fascinating resolution. He has a smaller OLED show on which something you sort exhibits up immediately. Solely after you press the house bar is it transferred to the e-paper show. This serves as a pleasant workaround for the in any other case slower E-Ink show.
A user-replaceable battery powers the system. There’s additionally a USB-C port for recharging the battery. The system runs a basic software program written in C++ utilizing the Arduino IDE. At present, all of the system affords is an app launcher that additionally serves as the house display, a fundamental textual content editor, and a file administration characteristic. All the information could be discovered within the EinkPDA GitHub repository.
Ashtf is contemplating including extra capabilities in future iterations, which implies a extra superior model is feasible. Keep tuned.
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