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cat-whisperer
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How to build a printer
> I was thinking of this, but rendering PDF takes a lot out of a 400KB RAM'd device. It also needs a ton of things to actually work which the ROM can't hold.
> Kindles have a ton of RAM, this one didn't.
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ghostly_s
12 hours ago
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It's an e-reader. According to the specs it has native support for PDF.
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mrheosuper
12 hours ago
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It's an esp32 MCU, even if it can somehow run the PDF render pipeline, it won't be more ideal than just accept the raw byte stream and display.
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> Kindles have a ton of RAM, this one didn't.