Really cool of valve to do this and include a full tutorial.
Just about any other company would keep it closed and sell the accessory with proprietary software; then if that was not commercially viable, would just not release anything at all.
IDGAF if Newell is a Epstein-class helo-pad yacht billionaire. Valve’s success is built on the recognition that customers are the source of success, rather than a resource to be extracted. Valve is bringing PC citizenship to console subjects. Just in time for the 4th of July.
Independence from Corporate Bullshit Day!
Too bad that this runs using a battery, would have been nice if the Steam Machine included some pogo pins I/O for that kind of thing.
Where did you see the battery? I don’t see one mentioned anywhere
For some reason the battery isn’t mentioned in the parts list but it’s shown in the video and mentioned in the instructions. Would be pretty easy to power the esp feather with a dcdc converter off of a USB port or something assuming it doesn’t take 5v directly
Esp feather will take 5v directly, and usually has a USB port on it
here
This is a bunch of stuff that you can order from Adafruit, so idk where Steam comes into it.
Also the screen is 5.83" which is a yawner. It’s a drag that e-ink screens are still all so small. Wake me up when there’s an affordable 14 inch one or larger, that doesn’t take 20+ seconds to refresh. 1 second is tolerable. Motion video is not required.
Blame patents. E-Ink is under the thumb of one company and using patents they block any and all competition and thus most innovation.
afaik it’s very possible to make e-inks with 20+fps, but the microcontroller used to power the display isn’t powerful enough. I’ll link the yt vid if I can find it.
found it: https://youtu.be/nHbA2-_qzH4
it’s a 60 fps colour e-ink display
Yeah trouble is those use a lot of power, from what I heard. I’m satisfied with a usable e-reader that can flip pages at tolerable speed.
Well I would assume less powerful ones should take up less power. Also, don’t normal LED displays also require this, or sometimes more computation to calculate the pixels?
