An open-source rework in Go of my dead-born n0vel1st project
(TODO)
- 2024-05-05: Development is currently in alpha state. This code does NOT allow a practical use of the device. If you're interested in participating in code development, now is a good time. If you're more interested in building your own device and using it, you likely will have to wait for a few more months.
If you want to participate in discussions about this project, join the "NV Reloaded" discord server at Discord. Snapshots, videos, and regular status updates are posted there.
Stable releases will be announced here:
- ...
- 2024-05-05: no current stable release.
These steps are for tests and development. A simpler process will be defined later on.
This prototype runs on an 8GB Raspberry Pi4 with Raspberry Pi OS 64-bits, AKA Debian 12, AKA "bookworm" (nice coincidence)
It may run on a Pi4 with less memory (possibly down to 2GB), but that's not tested. It may also run on a Pi3 or inferior, but again, that's not tested.
It has also not been tested on the new Pi5. The extra power of a Pi5 may not make a big difference, since the only bottleneck currently is in the communication with the e-ink display through the e-Ink Hat, which is limited to SPI running at 12.5MHz max.
- e-Ink Hat
- e-Ink display
- keyboard if not BT/BLE
Your user should be created during the Pi's Install Procedure (check here for more details). Also ensure you set up your wifi properly (it will be possible to set wifi later on with the display, but this is not yet done). Also ensure you can access your pi through SSH if you're not going to use an external monitor.
Using sudo raspi-config, ensure the SPI port is ON
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y git build-essential evtest libfreetype6 libfreetype2-dev libfreetype6-dev
(possibly more... TBD)
Download the main code base from Github into your home directory on the pi:
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/peergum/nv-reloaded nv
cd nv
make
cd ~
./install_go
make run
./nv -h
./nv -debug -display -epd -doc
./nv [...]