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Where would someone with zero hardware experience start to work on projects like this?

I have a vision of a modern sticky note powered by your phone that can relay information to this type of small, e-ink display. But I have no idea how to go about developing it... any pointers?

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You could try using our development kit [1] which is a production ready version of OPs system.

[1] https://www.visionect.com/development_kits

Maybe SeeNote [1] could be what you are looking for. Only preorder now, but looks really nice. I would really like give it a go, but I don't like preorders. [1] https://www.getseenote.com

This is exactly what I want to build but not something I want to buy.

The reason is because I feel like SeeNote is overkill, like they took the elegant idea of modernizing the sticky note and added things like weather and prompts for no apparent reason.

If I could build a stripped-down version of this myself, that would be ideal. I just don't have any clue where to start.

Nobody does, because there is no open source "visionect", but there really should be. They have put in the work to make a simple stack (dev kit) for working with the tech, but you can't just borrow that stack and source cheap panels. I would say the market is wide open for someone to do what they are doing, but crowd fund it, open source the controllers, hardware, software etc

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