What am I going to do with my RasPi?
I like the idea of making an eBook reader that bolts onto the ceiling above my bed so that I can read books in the winter without having my arms outside the covers, getting all cold.
This is a fairly simple project.
Maybe the ceiling mounted screen can act as a night clock and alarm clock as well.
I will also use it as a web browser of course and will watch movies on it, and probably a whole lot of other things as well.
But for now, I just want it to be a good eBook reader.
1) I guess the main thing to sort out is having a very black screen when not in use, but still powered up.
Using an LCD screen as a night time eBook reader is probably a bad idea as the supposedly "black" background will just give off too much light I suspect. I will have to do some testing with various devices.
I do not want my eyes to hurt when reading 50 -100 pages at night.
2) It would be nice if I could raise and lower the screen to get the distance from eyes to screen as comfortable as possible for different sized text, and movies, and web browsing.
3) Hopefully I can get it up and running in time to read "The Hobbit" before it comes out at the movies in December 2012. Hopefully, I will receive my RasPi before then? Possibly not? Well, at least I'm in the queue.
I like the idea of making an eBook reader that bolts onto the ceiling above my bed so that I can read books in the winter without having my arms outside the covers, getting all cold.
This is a fairly simple project.
Maybe the ceiling mounted screen can act as a night clock and alarm clock as well.
I will also use it as a web browser of course and will watch movies on it, and probably a whole lot of other things as well.
But for now, I just want it to be a good eBook reader.
1) I guess the main thing to sort out is having a very black screen when not in use, but still powered up.
Using an LCD screen as a night time eBook reader is probably a bad idea as the supposedly "black" background will just give off too much light I suspect. I will have to do some testing with various devices.
I do not want my eyes to hurt when reading 50 -100 pages at night.
2) It would be nice if I could raise and lower the screen to get the distance from eyes to screen as comfortable as possible for different sized text, and movies, and web browsing.
3) Hopefully I can get it up and running in time to read "The Hobbit" before it comes out at the movies in December 2012. Hopefully, I will receive my RasPi before then? Possibly not? Well, at least I'm in the queue.
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