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The steam machine has an eink screen?
While Valve will not be making and providing their own e-ink display for the Steam Machine, they have opened it up so anyone can now do it.
Quite literally the first sentence of the article. No, it has not. But there are now instructions to retrofit it with one.
I know what I’d like to see:
And the ‘countdown clock’ animation for when its booting games or loading in levels. I wouldnt even mind if it randomly scrolled fallout ads while your playing ‘sugar bombs’, ‘radaway’, etc.
That’s cool that they host their own repository. Maintaining their distance from Microsoft I guess haha.
Most of the screens you see on modern cases don’t have firmware for Linux. So good to see a modern one that does. Would make sense for this to be used on any of the Linux gaming boxes that are around.
May as well open it - I doubt the SM will be doing massive sales at current prices, so even fewer would have sprung for this add-on. Opening it up is at least good PR/marketing.
Why does the one on the picture look backlit?
Can’t you get backlit e-ink displays? Don’t kindles have them?
Well, technically eink displays don’t have backlight but frontlight.
Don’t know why you’re getting down voted for this, you’re technically correct, the best kind of correct!
Hehe
Yes, e-readers nowadays have a “frontlight”, a fiber optic mesh overlaid on top of the display. But the list of materials they provide doesn’t have anything that would provide this light.
intensive studio lighting? e-ink is reflective so good enough front light makes them surprisingly bright.
I don’t know much about electronic components. This is a diy kit with a esp32 board in it. Could you reflash with valve firmware and have it just work? Or would different aspect ratio of screen mean a slight change to a config or full reworking?
https://www.seeedstudio.com/TRMNL-7-5-Inch-OG-DIY-Kit-p-6481.html
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