“Nice, it does what i want and i already wrote a few games for it.
Could it be better? I would like it to have an inbuilt LIPO charger circuit and a couple of pins exposed and a case ( i don't got a 3D printer). I used a cut-up credit card for now. The battery connector is way too bulky and adds unnecessary depth to the otherwise slimline product.”
“A great piece of kit. And 3d printable cases are out there should more a robust environment be required. The only decision to make now is do I get the wifi version too?”
“I was interested in the Badger card as I prefer small pocket readers, and suspected I could make one that’s smaller and lighter than what’s currently available as an out of the box ereader.
PROS
Good value (£49/$59 for the Badger card, charging adapter, 500mah battery and a 3D printed backplate)
Possibly the most comfortable ereader to hold
Possibly the lightest ereader at 42g
Fits jeans watch pocket
Customisable software (micropython, lots of examples provided)
USB C
Physical page turn controls
No layers on top of eink
CONS
Only txt files using example code, and it’s fussy about special characters
Not grayscale, so pixel font
Only one good pixel font preloaded on the card (I’m doubling it’s size so a pixel font designed to be larger would be better)
No light
OS battery indicator doesn’t work
Battery needs to be disconnected to charge it with a special adapter
Only 1MB of available storage - most novels in .txt format will fit, some will not (not sure how hard it is to add an sd card)
Some things I changed in the reader code to make it usable for me:
Font (the defaults in the ereader code weren’t designed for non-grayscale screens)
Removed constant UI graphics
Increased refresh from fast to turbo as flashing the screen between every page was too distracting and slow (still a bit slow and with some ghosting)
Once it’s setup for a book it’s pretty nice to read on, so I’ll try it as my day reader for a while.”
“I only had this thing for less than a week and it's so much fun customizing it, impressing my friend with it, looking "professional" and loading silly images on it. I cant think of any downside and especially for its price its totally worth it!”
“Bought this and a separate kit to increase the scan rate of QR codes. It works great and attracts the targeted attention! Since it doesn’t need power I use the battery pack to program it once.
Works out of the box in demo mode and is easy to configure. All I did was watch the video tutorial review.”
