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An Ereading device made with an ESP32-S3 that reads epub files off flash. Hermit crabbed it into an old dvd player, using its frame and remote
Ship #1
Pending review
I’ve been taking the time to work on the README and demo vid for this project, cleaning up some code and prepping everything for release
The ereader project is something that I was working on before stardance and builds upon the incredible work of people who have implemented the libraries and tools that allowed this project to be quite expansive.
I hermit-crabbed an old portable dvd player to be the shell, and learned how to intercept its remote to work with my project, reviving some life into the old hardware.
I didn’t quite get to figuring out sd card storage (just because I’m using all the cards I have and don’t feel like buying more), so everything is on the board’s 16 Mb flash storage (less than that due to program size). But it is usually enough to hold some books and easy enough to wirelessly connect and update the library that is stored. (just go to ereader.local when connected and all the options appear)
Atomic14 on github made an epub reading repo using the espressif framework, but since I am more familiar with Arduino I remodeled a lot of the functionality to work with it and with the hardware that I had available, among other additions to fit my usage.
I hope to maybe make the project more accessible with some good installation and customization, and potentially even a utility to make uploading content onto the flash even easier.