Looking to Make Your CrossPoint-Running Xteink X3 Easier to Use? Turn It Into a "Printer"
Developer Nishant Joshi has made it easier to get images and documents onto a Xteink X3 or other CrossPoint-compatible ePaper electronic book reader — by having it show up on your network as a printer.
"I was planning to build an [ePaper] display when I came across the Xteink X3 online," Joshi explains by way of background. "Somewhere in the fine print, it said the thing was fully programmable. I was sold. When it arrived, I liked how flat it was. It felt solid in my hand. I started adding things to the CrossPoint firmware: a different boot animation, dice I could roll by shaking the reader, a LinkedIn QR code for SF networking events. But getting stuff onto it was tedious. I had to join its hotspot and open a little upload website in my browser. Yuck."
An evening's hacking has turned an Xteink X3 eReader into a "printer,"...
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