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Check out what was behind the Esquire’s E Ink cover thanks to Phil at MAKE. He’s taken the cover apart and in addition to the E-Ink display, found lithium cells, printed circuit boards, and flash-programmable microcontrollers, which could be partially hacked or reprogrammed.

The E-Ink panel is segmented (11 on top, 3 on bottom), which means you cant use the entire rectangle for display.

While you can change the timing for each section’s blinking, the potential for real customization seems limited. Instead you could only change when each section blinks or doesn’t blink (not much fun, I know)

 

 

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