We've seen any number of re-purposed hacked Kindles over the years, including as a weather station, fridge magnet, and wireless monitor, but all of those projects pale in comparison...
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Kindle + Bike + RasPi Equals Bike Computer
For the past several years E-ink has been talking up possible niche uses for E-ink screens, including sunlight-readable displays for motor bikes and bicycles. To the best of my knowledge, no...
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Kindle Plus Raspberry Pi Equals Fridge Magnet
We've seen ereaders repurposed as weather stations, a netbook, and even a project status board, and now one has made its way to your refrigerator. Last week a hacker by the...
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Raspberry Pi Cuts the Cable, Now Works With a Kindle as a Wireless Monitor
The Raspberry Pi is a cheap single-board computer designed for hacking and DIY projects. It's been used as a weather station, a laptop, and most importantly a computer with a Kindle screen. In...
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Hack Turns a Kindle into an Expensive Thermometer
The Amazon Kindle was originally designed to let you read for weeks on end on a single battery charge, but as with most consumer electronics that idea went by...
Continue readingKindle Plus Legos Plus Mac Equals DIY Scanner (video)
Do you like Rube Goldberg machines? Do you like to bypass DRM? Then you'll love this DIY project. One hacker with too much time on his hands has built...
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Meet the Kindle: eReader, Audiobook Player, Weather Station?
The new black Kindle has been out for not even a couple of weeks and it has already been hacked for a new project. This weather station is the...
Continue readingThe Amazon Kindle Gets a Torrent Client
As a general rule I'm not one to hack my ereaders, but I'm almost tempted to pull out my K3 just to install this hack. One member of MobileRead...
Continue readingKindleBerry Pi – Mobile E-ink Computing at its Finest
Do you know what you get when you take a computer the size of a business card and add a keyboard and a Kindle? That-> Earlier this year a...
Continue readingKindle DX Hacked to Act as a Second Monitor (Video)
For the longest time I've wanted to know what it would be like to have an E-ink monitor, and now it looks like I will finally have the chance....
Continue readingKindle Touch Does Streaming Video
The hacker who played a video on his Kindle Touch is back again and he has a new trick up his sleeve. His latest video shows a Kindle Touch...
Continue readingUpdated: Kindle Touch Hacked to Run Video
The Nook Touch can do a fast refresh (and even play video) and the Kobo Touch can play Tetris, so today's news that the Kindle Touch has been hacked...
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