Building an E-Ink Calendar and a UI Toolkit along the way

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This project combines the development of an E-Ink calendar display with a reusable UI toolkit built during the process. Created for users who want to build calendar applications on E-Ink devices, it provides both a functional calendar implementation and the underlying interface components needed for similar projects. The work demonstrates how practical product development can yield useful tools for the broader development community.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

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Having worked from home for the better part of the year, I recently started to work on a new project. Building a E-Ink based dashboard which would keep track of my meetings among other things. Given the always-on nature of the E-Ink display, this would help me better manage by schedule during a typical work-day especially given I tend to miss Google Calendar notifications a lot . The app here is showing the next 5 Calendar events for a demo Google account . Looks nice and simple, does it not ? I took an off-the-shelf approach for the hardware. I purchased an InkPlate 6 which was originally crowd-funded on CrowdSupply . The E-Ink display is from a recycled Kindle e-reader, which means its a…from rahulrav.com

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