Showing a selection of quotes, taken from your saved Kindle clippings, and displayed on an e-ink screen.
Using eink screens in home devices like Coten helps to avoid the magnetism of another screen in your house.
Eink screens work well for passive, glancing-based home technology, like Coten.
- Using code from https://github.com/lvzon/kindle-clippings/blob/master/extract-kindle-clippings.py
- Open kindle quote file
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Shuffle list and iterate through -
reject duplicates, empties and too-long quotes -
Create an image from the quote - Display the image on the screen (eink: https://github.com/pimoroni/inky)
11/4/20
- Review https://github.com/pimoroni/inky/blob/master/examples/clean.py
- Update script to use https://github.com/pimoroni/inky/blob/master/examples/what/quotes-what.py
brew install python3 Maybe? pip install requirements.txt Or pip install pillow
https://github.com/lvzon/kindle-clippings
https://code-maven.com/create-images-with-python-pil-pillow
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1970807/center-middle-align-text-with-pil
http://tsaith.github.io/combine-images-into-a-video-with-python-3-and-opencv-3.html
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44947505/how-to-make-a-movie-out-of-images-in-python/44948030
https://medium.com/@enriqueav/how-to-create-video-animations-using-python-and-opencv-881b18e41397
pip install virtualenv virtualenv env --python=python3.6 source env/bin/activate pip install numpy pip install opencv-python
Output to USB drive or run via a Raspberry Pi Zero?