A — Products
Finished objects
FlightPortrait, aviation art on a 13.3″ color panel, is our first. The same frame becomes an art frame, photo frame, calendar or dashboard.
- FlightPortrait
- 13.3″ frame — art, photo, calendar
E-paper · Objects · Kits · Studio
Ink
Objects
Big, beautiful e-paper — for makers, makers’ products, and everything in between.
Fig. 1 — 31.5″ color e-paper, six inks, Floyd–Steinberg dithered. Illustration.Fig. 1 — the same image on a 1-bit panel, Atkinson dithered. Illustration.
02 — What we do
One material. Three ways in.
We start with e-paper because it’s the calmest screen there is. Buy a finished object, build your own with a kit, or have us design and make yours.
B — Kits & panels
Build your own
Color e-paper from 13.3″ to 42″, paired with our ESP32 driver board, open firmware and docs that actually get you to a working screen.
- 13.3″ · 25.3″ · 31.5″ · 42″
- Home Assistant · ESPHome · TRMNL
C — Studio
Make yours
Industrial design and manufacturing for companies building an e-paper product — from first prototype to a production run.
- Design · Prototype · Production
- Enclosures, electronics, firmware
03 — Kits
Big color e-paper, plug and play.
Panel, driver board and firmware that work together on day one. Prices below are expected ranges while we finalise supplier quotes — not final.
Reservations open
13.3″ Kit
The entry kit. Desk-sized dashboards, calendars and photo frames — the same panel inside FlightPortrait.
| Panel | 13.3″ color e-paper (Spectra 6) |
|---|---|
| In the box | Panel, driver board, cable (planned) |
| Software | Open firmware · Home Assistant / ESPHome · works with TRMNL |
| Good for | Desk & shelf: dashboards, calendars, photo frames |
$169–199
Expected price · not finalReservations open
25.3″ Kit
Big color e-paper that just plugs in. Today this size is hard to find, and never with a driver that works out of the box.
| Panel | 25.3″ color e-paper (Spectra 6) |
|---|---|
| In the box | Panel, driver board, cable (planned) |
| Software | Open firmware · Home Assistant / ESPHome · works with TRMNL |
| Good for | Hallway & kitchen: family boards, art, signage |
$699–899
Expected price · not finalReservations open
31.5″ Kit
Wall-scale. A poster that updates itself, draws power only while it changes, and has no backlight at all.
| Panel | 31.5″ color e-paper (Spectra 6) |
|---|---|
| In the box | Panel, driver board, cable (planned) |
| Software | Open firmware · Home Assistant / ESPHome · works with TRMNL |
| Good for | Wall: art, living-room dashboards, shop signage |
$699–899
Expected price · not finalOn request
42″ Panel
For installations, retail and signage projects. We’ll scope it with you through Studio.
| Panel | 42″ color e-paper (Spectra 6) |
|---|---|
| In the box | Scoped per project |
| Software | Open firmware · Home Assistant / ESPHome · works with TRMNL |
| Good for | Installations, retail, wayfinding |
On request
Quoted per projectDriver board only
Already have a panel? Our ESP32 driver board and firmware will be sold on their own too.
$29–49 expected
04 — Reserve
Reserve your kit.
Tell us which size you want and what you’ll build. It decides what we order first — and you’ll hear before anyone else when pre-orders open.
- No payment now — reserving is free.
- Kits aren’t shipping yet. We’ll be honest about dates.
- We email you once, when pre-orders open.
- No countdowns, no “only 3 left”.
- Unsubscribe with one click, any time.
05 — Why us
The panel is the easy part.
Great panels exist. What’s missing is everything around them — the board, the software, the docs and someone who answers. That’s the part we do.
01
Plug-and-play driver
An ESP32 board made for these panels. Connect, power, done — no breadboard archaeology.
02
Open firmware
Readable, hackable firmware you can fork, plus sensible defaults if you’d rather not.
03
Home Assistant ready
ESPHome support and Home Assistant setup guides, so your dashboard is an afternoon, not a month.
04
Works with TRMNL
Point the board at a TRMNL-compatible server and use the plugins you already know.
05
Browser image converter
Drop in a photo, preview it dithered for your panel, send it. Nothing to install.
06
Docs & real support
Docs written by people who built the thing — and a human on the other end of the email.
06 — Studio
Building an e-paper product?
We design and manufacture e-paper objects for other companies — from a sketch to a production run. You get the team that ships our own products.
- DesignIndustrial design, enclosure and user experience.
- PrototypeWorking units with real panels, boards and firmware.
- ProductionSourcing, assembly and QA through our manufacturing partners.
07 — Guides
Field notes on e-paper.
Practical, honest guides — the docs we wished existed when we started.
08 — FAQ
Questions, answered plainly.
What is e-paper, exactly?
A reflective display made of tiny charged pigment particles. Like paper, it’s lit by the room — there’s no backlight — and the image stays put with the power off. The color panels we use mix six pigments (black, white, red, yellow, blue and green) to make their palette.
How fast does it refresh?
Slowly, on purpose. A full color refresh on these large panels typically takes several seconds to tens of seconds, depending on the panel and temperature. That makes them perfect for things that change every few minutes or hours — calendars, dashboards, art — and wrong for video or animation.
How much power does it use?
E-paper only draws power while the image is changing; holding an image costs nothing. Real-world consumption depends on how often you update and how the board sleeps between updates. We’ll publish measured numbers for each kit before pre-orders open rather than guess now.
Color or mono?
Color panels show six inks with dithering — great for art, photos and color-coded dashboards. Mono panels are faster and crisper for pure text. Our kits launch with color panels; use the Color / Mono switch at the top of this page to get a feel for both.
Where will you ship?
We’ll confirm shipping regions before pre-orders open. Tell us your country in the reservation form — it directly shapes where we ship first.
When will kits ship?
Not yet, and we won’t pretend otherwise. We’re confirming supplier quotes and building first production samples. Reservations tell us which sizes to order first; reservers hear from us before anyone else.
What about refunds?
There’s nothing to refund — reserving is free and takes no payment. If we later offer an optional deposit to hold a spot, it will be fully refundable, and we’ll say so plainly before you pay anything.