Update on my Epaper terminal project. The goal of this project is to be able to build a portable computer with an epaper screen for primarily terminal work that can be used outside in strong sunlight. In the update toot I sent out about a week ago (as of original posting date in 2020), I showed nano working on the screen. Now, I demonstrate lynx, with a bit of additional bodging that allows me to display images from lynx on the epaper screen. This is done by editing the local .mailcap file to get lynx to send all images to a script that does a few things: it converts them to .pbm files (with dither), reads commands from the user for displaying them and then sends signals through custom APC commands to my homemade (for this purpose) terminal emulator that then opens up the image files and displays them onscreen.

This video was first Published to my SciTech.Video PeerTube channel on 16/04/2020. I moved it here 10/04/2025 as SciTech close down in under a week.