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Show HN: Trading cards made with e-ink displays
I made a thing!<p>In 2014, I was holding a stack of iPhones and thought to myself:<p><pre><code> "Hey, if I had each phone display a playing card, I could click a button and they'd shuffle themselves"
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I pared that idea all the way down to this: trading cards made of e-ink displays.<p>Right now, each card costs me about $20 each, but with only a bit more scale, I think I can get that down to $10.<p>In doing this project, I learned how to design electronics and circuit boards. I learned Rust and wrote my first driver, I upped my CAD skills, 3D printed, and did my first resin casting. I generated the images on the cards using stable-diffusion.<p>HN always seems to appreciate new uses for e-ink. Thought I'd share :)
Show HN: Trading cards made with e-ink displays
I made a thing!<p>In 2014, I was holding a stack of iPhones and thought to myself:<p><pre><code> "Hey, if I had each phone display a playing card, I could click a button and they'd shuffle themselves"
</code></pre>
I pared that idea all the way down to this: trading cards made of e-ink displays.<p>Right now, each card costs me about $20 each, but with only a bit more scale, I think I can get that down to $10.<p>In doing this project, I learned how to design electronics and circuit boards. I learned Rust and wrote my first driver, I upped my CAD skills, 3D printed, and did my first resin casting. I generated the images on the cards using stable-diffusion.<p>HN always seems to appreciate new uses for e-ink. Thought I'd share :)
FTX’s collapse was a crime, not an accident
FTX’s collapse was a crime, not an accident
Tales of the M1 GPU
Tales of the M1 GPU
Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries
Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries
Intentionally making close friends
AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes
AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes
Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
Author here. This site lets you put in a username and get the users with the most similar writing style to that user. It confirmed several users who I suspected were alts and after informally asking around has identified abandoned accounts of people I know from many years ago. I made this site mostly to show how easy this is and how it can erode online privacy. If some guy with a little bit of Python, and $8 to rent a decent dedicated server for a day can make this, imagine what a company with millions of dollars and a couple dozen PhD linguists could do.<p>Here's Paul Graham:<p><a href="https://stylometry.net/user?username=pg" rel="nofollow">https://stylometry.net/user?username=pg</a><p>Here are some frequent HN commenters: (EDIT: Removed due to privacy concerns)
Almost everything on Amazon is becoming an ad
Almost everything on Amazon is becoming an ad