The next 200-ish units are hitting the Crowd Supply warehouse in Texas now. That means, over the next few days, you can expect to receive a shipping notification if you ordered during the initial campaign period.

These units have all had adjustments made to them by the Soldered team: the firmware fixed and updated, the keyboards tweaked slightly, and some of the internal fixtures adjusted. This should address most of the unexpected issues we saw with the first batch.

As always, you can contact me directly if you have any questions or run in to any problems: adam@zerowriter.ink.

Happy writing, batch two backers!

Batch Three & Beyond

So, what is next? The last remaining units will be finished up and out the door next, which should take about 4-6 weeks. And hey - at that point, all orders will be completely fulfilled.

You may notice that Zerowriter Ink is sold out (or close to it). We’re looking at ways to do another run of units to make some available in the immediate future.

As promised, the source code and design files for Zerowriter Ink will be published in GitHub when the final batch of units is fulfilled. This is in respect to those who have been waiting very patiently for their units. I hope the source code and design files help builders make great devices and projects. You’ll find it at our GitHub repo, where I have already started posting some code and utilities.

Zerowriter Ink in The Financial Times

A cool little feature popped up the other day. Thanks to the Financial Times for supporting indie hardware. Check it out here.

Zerowriter Pi Bright Display

For those who have been following my projects for a while, we’ve come a long way since my Raspberry Pi days.

Ever since switching to the Zerowriter Ink project, I’ve been able to get awesome performance, commercial-level features and reliability, instant-on, and a host of other really amazing things.

However, I’ve always wanted to find a way to make an e-ink module for builders who aren’t interested in diving deep into embedded development. For those who want to work in Raspberry Pi, the e-paper options aren’t great. So I am excited to share the pre-launch for a development board called the Zerowriter Pi Bright Display. This is a display module that attaches to a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W, transforming it into an all-in-one single board computer with a lightning-fast 12 FPS e-paper display. Plus, it’s got frontlight controls.

This is a smaller scope project, and we are gearing it towards makers and builders and enthusiasts. So if you can think of a project that could use a fast e-paper display that runs Linux command-line, this might be for you.

You can find it here: Zerowriter Pi Bright Display

Adam