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Very nice!
I've been toying with the idea of using a Kindle as a System K dashboard. You can buy them on eBay for around $50.
How's the Asus for sunlight readability?
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Yeah, mine came with firmware that wasn't able to be rooted. I did read that if you are feeling brave you can open up your kindle and connect to the JTAG inside, which will allow you to make the appropriate file changes to root it. I'm not sure what that'll do to the experimental browser, but at least you can go full screen.
My experiment with ePaper from Aliexpress was a bust - it appears that the module I got was DOA. It'll be a while before I have the time to get another and resume experiments. The 4x20 LCD I was experimenting with is working fine, but as with a lot of this stuff, finding an adequate enclosure or even bezel for it is a challenge. I think there may be a 3D printer in my future!
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Good news for the Kindle is it seems to still work fine with my older Openplotter setup, so the problem would seem to be due to code changes I made. I made the fonts larger and combined speed and heading together on one page (as I don't we don't have wind and depth on the race boat.) It's looking pretty good except for the huge latency issue I induced.