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I like how with words like "non-mainstream hardware", "acess to documentation is limited" you make it sound like using E Ink tech is incredibly complex and that mere mortals would not be able to do it on their own. Then at the end you casually mention that your company, Visionect can help. I googled and found that you are selling $6000 devel kits. I'm curious what is the price you're getting the displays for?

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I understand your frustration, I too just want access to decently priced, and various sizes of e-ink displays. From my time playing with the little adafruit displays, I also get where Visonect is coming from as a whole stack (hardware, controller, api, software) that makes it easier to just get up and going sounds pretty dang great.

I think what it comes down to for me, is I am not buying a dev kit to get hooked into an ecosystem that I don't have really clear pricing on. Which is really to bad. I think if you had a cheaper wifi only 6" model that people could afford to throw away money on just to test ideas out, then you would get way more people interested.

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