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singpolyma3
I don't fully understand the obsession with making less-capable devices and talking about them as though being less capable is a feature by itself.
moondance
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” - Brian Eno
serious_angel 

    > With ePaper, the photo on screen stays there even after powering off.  
    > The only way to clear the screen is to take a new photo.
    > 
    > Source: https://reframe.camera
Thank you... dear developers, artists, people... for the marvel, art you do...
j45
A color eink screen is a wonderful recalibration for a screen that kids can use compared to the overstimulation of an lcd, especially with touchscreen features.
leonmeng
ove the constraints—15 seconds to develop and one photo at a time makes it feel like a digital Polaroid. Great that it’s open source, too.
hankbond
Very cute idea. I would expect that with a 15 second develop time and no live display preview some kind of optical viewfinder would be very helpful. I love seeing weird cameras.
fcnprvfgurcynpr
cute. I'd like to see some photos without the dithering applied, as it looks similar to a regular dithered jpeg, like you'd see on https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

it would be fun to try out a few different algos for the colour space conversion.

3dedb728-3f77
So is the goal to make ewaste now?

What is the point?

BobbyTables2
Reminds me of photos in games about 30 years ago…
nels
Very cool! Any idea what the approximate battery life on this is?
num42
Great work! About two hours ago, I was listening to "Générique" by Miles Davis (jazz) with a noisy, animated gradient background. The whole experience felt incredibly immersive. Now, this camera can bring that beautiful noise texture into photos with a single click. Add some clever motion graphics and transform those photos into illustrative noisy textured gradients, it could become an amazing music visualizer for jazz lovers. I don't know why, but I'm really obsessed with noisy textures.

Générique by Miles Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q73OSYyq5E0

Immersive noisy background: https://monopo.vn/

(I'm not affiliated with the site in any way. I just came across it on the Awwwards website: https://www.awwwards.com/inspiration/monopo-saigon-hypnotic-...)

ChuckMcM
Its a great idea, I think they should read the papers on dithering (I've got a color e-paper display and you can get a lot less noise than that by better dithering). The interesting thing is that back in the film days you took your 12 pictures and sent them off to the lab, and two or three days later you found out if any of them were great. This gives some of that "wait for it" kind of feel back to the photography. And at least for me, I think longer about taking a shot if I won't know instantly if its good or not :-)
swiftcoder
Practicality aside, I really love this concept
ktallett
Considering there are attempts to increase the frame rate on epaper screens, it would be interesting to see if that is possible with this.
anonymous344
that 3d print seems to be under-extruded. I always wonder how can so many 3d print be so low quality. My 6+ year old ender5 will print so nice quality
abbasov_murad
The topic of reasoning and solving the problem is described very well by you, but I think how it could be improved