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  1. First customizations for Diptyx - part 1

    This is part 1 of my first customizations to my Diptyx ebook reader .

    Its been a week or so since Ive really dove into the ebook reader.

    First observations:

    1. The battery is AMAZING! I haven’t seen it go below 90 since Ive had it and im already 10% of the way through a book. I am a voracious reader.
    2. Software has been ok. Good in some ways, bad in others. Im looking to fix the things that bother me the most. I was able to image the ebook reader (thinking about posting how to do so for anyone at a later date).
    3. Theres a ton of inbuilt fonts. Some are good. Most are meh.
    4. Documentation is still ongoing. So some parts are excellent (source code and STL) and some are terrible (what do DO with said source code and STL)

    The buttons are probably the worst part of the experience. They are made of some low quality PLA that hurt my fingers. Which led me to the first customization! My wife had nail polish that works well with PLA. So slapped on a blue and it feels soo much smoother! Ive been reading even more now.

    The second customization was getting a 32 GB sd card. The system only comes with a 2 GB SD. 32GB for 20$ isnt bad. I have another for 512GB that im using for my miyoo mini. So im thinking worst case ill use that one day. 32 is enough for what I want to do with it (for now).


    The inside of the device. Pretty easy to read. You can see the ESP32, sd card, wires and other such here.


    Not the greatest picture but you can see the size of my ring compared to the screen. It fits in my poket. This is the other side of the eink display.

    1/32” to get the screws out. No instructions on that one. I had to guesstimate on that. only 10 screws in the whole system and its super solid.

    Anyways yeah im having fun with this thing. Fully recommend if your a maker or want something completely open source.

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