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It Follows e-reader

Why it worked

The video taps into the DIY electronics and maker community by showcasing a functional build inspired by a popular culture reference ('It Follows'). The creator addresses a common limitation in previous builds (memory) and shows a clear progression of steps, promising a follow-up part, which encourages engagement and retention.

Summary

The creator is building a clamshell e-reader inspired by the 'It Follows' movie. They demonstrate adding an SD card reader to overcome memory limitations and then connect two e-paper screens, along with buttons for navigation and selection. The video concludes with a preview of the next steps, including making the device more compact and adding a battery.

Structure

1Introduction to the project: building an e-reader from 'It Follows'.
2Addressing the limitation of the previous e-reader (memory).
3Adding an SD card reader and testing its functionality.
4Connecting the e-paper screens and implementing basic navigation.
5Adding a menu screen and refining the user interface.
6Concluding with a look ahead to part two: making it compact and adding a battery.

Original caption

I’m making the ereader / kindle from it follows! #ereader #hardware #DIY #electronics #esp32

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The video shows the construction of a custom e-reader using components like e-paper screens, a microcontroller (ESP32), an SD card reader, and buttons. The 'It Follows' movie is mentioned as inspiration for the design.

Call to action

So come back for part two

On-screen text

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Transcript

I'm making the ereader from It Follows. This is part one. So I've made a mini ereader before and so many people commented on this saying that you have to make the clamshell ereader from It Follows. So let's go build it. The biggest problem with my first ereader is that I could only read 10 pages from a book at a time because I use the on board memory of the microcontroller. This time I'm gonna hook up an SD card reader. I'm testing it out first with some code and look at that, it detects when there's an SD card. Now I gotta hook up the e-paper screens. For now, just to test it out, I pulled the entirety of Dracula as a text file onto the SD card. So I wrote some quick code for this and when I run it, it shows up on the screen. Now let's quickly add the other screen and then write some more code. And look at that, it splits it up between the top and the bottom. Now we just gotta add some buttons to move the pages. I also added this menu screen to select which book and when you select one, it opens the book and you can use the buttons to move forward and back. Some other fixes where I added partial refresh so it doesn't refresh the entire screen every time, but every 20 times or so. And then also I removed and made it so that if you press both buttons at the same time, it acts like a select. Now we just gotta make all of this look pretty and add a battery. So come back for part two.