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This is the coolest thing on HN that I've seen in a minute. The whole thing is a perfect blend of ideas with the end result of something that feels... magical. Honestly this is the highest inspiration to me as a builder as I just want to create magical experiences, even if they are just small oddities.

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Really cool, except the price. Around 500 Euro for the full thing... I miss the times you could make amazing things with a Pi under 100 Euro.

That's the e-ink monopoly for you. Though you could probably use a slightly smaller b&w eink display with a second hand raspberry 4 to shave a lot from that number.

To be fair even if they could build a 10x larger e-ink panel factory it’s uncertain if they could shave costs by more than maybe 40% to 50% per panel.

And it’s very questionable whether there is genuinely 10x more latent annual demand for e-ink panels at that still not cheap price point.

If you have a Kobo (~ US$ 120 or even less used) you can run this using Cobalt https://github.com/BandarLabs/Cobalt/tree/beta/apps/birds

It seems like Kobo eReaders don't come with a mic.

You could probably use an ESP32-S3-PhotoPainter (which comes with a mic) to do this for even cheaper: https://www.waveshare.com/esp32-s3-photopainter.htm

Yes absolutely, the current Kobo one uses the Mac's mic. I work near a window on my Mac so this is handy without any hardware setup.

Agree, this was really a beautiful thing to see!

EDIT: no Ai for pictures - cool!

> This is the coolest thing on HN that I've seen in a minute.

Off-topic, but what is up with the increased use of the phrase "in a minute", presumably to mean "in a long time", lately?

I've only started encountering it in the past year.

Did it get popularized by some celebrity, tv show, influencers, etc?

seems like you know what you're talking about 5k% increase starting in July this year

https://trends.google.com/explore?q=I%27ve%20seen%20in%20a%2...

I think the trend is probably misleading. A popular youtuber may have released a video in August with a title containing "in a minute".

It's been around in slang for a few years with a few variants, e.g. "I haven't seen her in a hot minute." I think it's just filtered into wider cultural vernacular.

people have been saying "it's been a minute" to mean a long time since at least the 90s in NY

Yeah, I’ve been saying hot minutes for decades myself!

Scarlett Johansson says, “See you in a minute" in Avengers: Endgame.

I say "see you in a minute" to mean "see you in a bit". What did Scarlett Johansson mean by that in that movie?

it's been around. I more commonly see it as "been a minute!" when you see someone you haven't seen in a good while.

This phrase has been around for years, I know because it has always infuriated me.

They took a well-defined unit of time, which is relatively short, and made it mean “some unknown but very long period of time”.

So frustrating. /oldmanyellsatcloud

I had not heard it before (or if I did I did not interpret it correctly, eg if one told me "see you in a minute" I would interpret it as "see you in a bit".

But there is this podcast discussing it in 2021, and it comes from black community slang from 70s (which is where most slang I encounter comes from). And these terms take a while to catch up usually, but it seems it was already circulating more broadly since 2000s.

https://waywordradio.org/its-been-a-minute/

It's been a phrase for decades.

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