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Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own
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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2026
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This is a bunch of stuff that you can order from Adafruit, so idk where Steam comes into it.
Also the screen is 5.83" which is a yawner. It's a drag that e-ink screens are still all so small. Wake me up when there's an affordable 14 inch one or larger, that doesn't take 20+ seconds to refresh. 1 second is tolerable. Motion video is not required.
afaik it's very possible to make e-inks with 20+fps, but the microcontroller used to power the display isn't powerful enough. I'll link the yt vid if I can find it.
found it: https://youtu.be/nHbA2-_qzH4
it's a 60 fps colour e-ink display
Yeah trouble is those use a lot of power, from what I heard. I'm satisfied with a usable e-reader that can flip pages at tolerable speed.
Well I would assume less powerful ones should take up less power. Also, don't normal LED displays also require this, or sometimes more computation to calculate the pixels?
https://youtu.be/nHbA2-_qzH4
Blame patents. E-Ink is under the thumb of one company and using patents they block any and all competition and thus most innovation.