Modos Developer Kit Live on Crowd Supply
Today, we’re launching our first product on Crowd Supply: a fast, open-hardware dev kit for driving e-ink displays. It supports 75Hz refresh, both color and monochrome panels, and more. This all started with a post on Hacker News about building an e-ink laptop. That post led to conversations with makers, minimalists, and others exploring how e-ink could fit into daily life, or help with personal health challenges. From those conversations came a community, which grew into a project, became a company, and brought us to today’s launch. We bootstrapped from the beginning, pushing through COVID…
Modos Developer Kit Live on Crowd Supply launched on August 4, 2025 with 11 votes, #1,601 of 8,530 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Modos Developer Kit is an open-hardware toolkit for building applications with e-ink displays. It enables 75Hz refresh rates and supports both color and monochrome panels. Designed for makers and developers interested in low-power display technology, the kit provides a foundation for creating e-ink devices ranging from laptops to specialized applications for health and wellness use cases.
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From the sources
Open-hardware e-ink developer kit and monitor with 75 Hz refresh and sub-100 ms latency, works with 6–13.3″ monochrome and color e-ink panels. Build fast, low-latency e-paper projects on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
A fast, low-latency, open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit
Modos Paper Dev Kit includes nearly everything you need to create an open-hardware e-paper monitor with a fast 75 Hz refresh rate, low latency, various screen-update configurations, multiple image modes, and flexible dithering options. It can be connected through HDMI or USB, and it works on Linux, macOS, and Windows. We are offering 6-inch and 13-inch monochrome kits, both powered by the same display controller, which can also be used with other panels. Twenty years ago, the release of the first e-paper devices marked a significant milestone in display technology, giving rise to e-readers and digital signage. Electrophoretic displays stand out for their unique qualities: they are easy on…from crowdsupply.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
Today, we’re launching our first product on Crowd Supply: a fast, open-hardware dev kit for driving e-ink displays. It supports 75Hz refresh, both color and monochrome panels, and more. This all started with a post on Hacker News about building an e-ink laptop. That post led to conversations with makers, minimalists…
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