
Handheld gadgets surround us, but often these
slabs of glass and silicon feel like they arrive
fully formed in our lives. We don’t often get
the chance to understand how, say, a Kindle
works — or even better, how we might make one
ourselves! The Open Book Project aims to create
a simple, comprehensible device for reading texts
in all the languages of the world
—
an e-reader
that can be built by hand with the tools in the
average maker’s workshop.
The E-Book FeatherWing is the simplest
version of the build. Functionally it’s a “wing” —
an accessory board that pairs with an Adafruit
Feather M4 Express, which provides the
microcontroller and the ...