When [Joel Hawksley] and his companion obtained married, that they had a purpose to create a house with a wholesome relationship to expertise, which largely means avoiding smartphone use. Smartphones aren’t with out their advantages, although, like being clocks and calendars, so [Joel] began in search of different choices to switch these capabilities. At first he went with a “magic mirror” resolution, however shortly pivoted to a wall-mounted e-paper resolution he calls Timeframe which has advanced into a decent overview for his residence and life.
E-paper has an a variety of benefits over LCD and LED shows, one among which being that its resemblance to actual paper makes it really feel extra natural. The primary e-paper iterations of Timeframe used a number of shows in picket frames, and [Joel] had a couple of totally different ones stationed round the home. They acquired their information from a custom-built Rails backend which despatched photos to the units. This made the refresh price doable pretty low, however a brand new 23.5″ show from Boox ultimately enabled an acceptably excessive decision and refresh price which may assist extra conventional show makes use of. However this show required that [Joel] rewrite all the back-end, an effort that took fairly a little bit of time however resulted in a formidable ultimate product.
Like all custom-built venture like this, [Joel] nonetheless has plans for enhancements together with these round additional integration together with his Dwelling Assistant and decreasing prices for future platforms. E-paper shows are widespread items of expertise for residence dashboards like this, up to now we’ve seen comparable, smaller builds which coincidentally have the identical title.
