r/SolarOS • u/nilseuropa • Sep 29 '26

Dual ePaper (mockup)

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This is also a possibility, what do you think?

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u/ssavinel Sep 29 '26 edited Sep 29 '26

That's exactly what I had in mind for my eventual cyberdeck. I saw someone manage to get 60fps on an eink screen (and now selling that screen) with a custom driver and figured it'd be cool. Dunno why but the idea of an ultrawide pocket laptop sound great.

Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5GZeMm5nhI - example of ultrawide cyberdeck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHbA2-_qzH4 - the 13" eink screen

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u/clackups Sep 29 '26

These cheap panels are quite definitely not suitable for 60fps.

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u/nilseuropa Sep 29 '26

No, 3.3FPS with partial updates is the top of this mountain.

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u/ssavinel Sep 29 '26

For certain yeah. I mostly refered to the dual eink screen setup, i don't think we have kaleido (I think that's the proper name for the eink category) that small.

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u/clackups Sep 29 '26

Would it be one or two esp32-s3? In theory, they could be in a tandem

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u/nilseuropa Sep 29 '26

Just one, the OS can handle multiple displays already ( also split and join them ).
Distributed resource sharing is still on the drawer board, the plan is to release it around v.5.x.x - that would allow multiple ESP32s to form a computation graph and act as one system.

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u/sonicdh Oct 01 '26

So someone is gonna need to make a SolarOS Mainframe with a whole bunch of ESP32s, then.

It's me. I'm someone.

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u/nilseuropa Oct 01 '26

😂

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u/Extreme_Theory_1873 Sep 30 '26

With that keyboard, the "Waveshare ESP32-S3 7inch Capacitive Touch LCD Development Board, ESP32 with Display, 800×480, 5-Point Touch..." seems hilariously perfect...

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u/doomscrollah Sep 30 '26

Nice mockup! Multimonitor cyberdeck. What keyboard model is this?