Does anyone know of any eurorack modules / desktop devices / guitar pedals that use E-Ink displays?

I came across the the light phone, and immediately thought that would be an interesting format for a music device.

Thanks!

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Hey, interesting timing! A friend and I are collaborating on an arduino/atmega328-based euroack module that will have an e-ink display and I’m almost done with the hardware design. It will be a 4 cv-in / 1 gate-in / 4 cv-out / 4 pot module with this adafruit display https://www.adafruit.com/product/1028

This is my second time laying out a eurorack module (first was a 4-hp SMD redesign of the Bastl Kompas, which I’ll share somewhere soon). This means my design might have some oversights, below is my schematic if you’re curious. I’m especially unsure about the DAC op-amp buffering/scaling I pulled from https://github.com/holmesrichards/dac_ino

Given that my collaborator isn’t equipped for SMD work, I designed it as a through-hole. Note that the huge hole in the middle of the board is a temporary placeholder for where the screen will be.

phoretic_schematic.pdf (145.1 KB)

Anyways, we aren’t exactly sure how we’ll program it yet, but are very excited about the idea of making the slowest sequencer to eurorack.

If it ends up working and folks are interested doing some programming for it, I’d happily send out some pcbs. And of course all of this is based off of amazing open-source work by Bastl, Mutable Instruments, and many others, so I’ll be sure to post all the kicad and gerber files.

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Supposedly the Arturia MatrixBrute has a little e-ink display for displaying preset info. Couldn’t find so much about it, but here is a snippet of it in action: https://youtu.be/-CPV_n6T80U?t=390

And I got my e-ink eurorack module prototype assembled. Still working out how to properly program the DACs and the screen in unison, so nothing flashy to show at the moment.

Wanted to share the progress though because maybe it stimulates ideas of how e-ink and all its limitations (latency, screen flashes on reset, etc) could be compelling as part of an instrument.

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The first thing I thought of was the Alesis Ion palm pilot type screen. I love this idea.

Beautiful design! Panel looks great

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