!World’s first E-INK SDK available to the public
!Cortex A8 RK2918 1GHz CPU 
!Supporting both E-INK and 

TFT/LCD panels

!Android and Linux

We proudly present the world’s first SDK supporting both E-INK and TFT panels.

No more mystery in programming E-INK. No more jail breaking your Kindle or Kobo…

Implement your own applications on RockthEink now!

What we want to achieve in this project

As far as we know there is no public SDK available for programming E-INK panels. Many people jail break commercial E-Ink devices in order to implement their own applications. However, they do it with many limitations since their are no public documents. With this project we want to change it.

We want to open the door to E-INK to all of you. All of you have now the opportunity to implement your own E-INK implementations. No more jail breaking.

The SDK will have two modes: E-INK and LCD/TFT.

We will provide developer's guide, circuit diagram, source code and sample code.

Target Audience

The SDK is great for everyone who is interested in E-INK and TFT/LCD as well as ARM development:

• Students
  
• Schools
  
• Universities
  
• Design House / Development companies
  
• Intelligent gift
  

What we have done so far

We have already made the prototype based on the RK2918 CPU in June 2013. 

A small quantity trial production was implemented, it was very successful. We have been working on concrete ODM ebook reader projects for our business customers based on this prototype.

RockthEink will support 7inch TFT/LCD and different E-INK panels like 6, 8, 9.7, 13.3 inch 16grey level as well as 8inch color E-INK (Triton).

Overview of all supported panels:

We had also made a SDK for E-INK development based on RK2818 three years ago:

Based on our experiences, we have designed RockthEink:

RockthEink’s Specs

Why do we need your help?

We have already designed RockthEink.

We need your support at Indiegogo to help us to fund our first mass production and manufacturing run. That means making thousands of these SDKs to ship around the world.

You'll be worldwide amongst the first to have one of the SDK so you can tell your friends and the whole world too.

If you cannot contribute the dollar, but you are willing to help us to make some noise on facebook, twitter, google+ or any other similar websites, we would also be very grateful for your help.

What is EINK?

EINK displays are great for your eyes

The EINK (also called electronic paper or epaper) screen is easier on the eyes for reading documents and web pages. Its displays are easier to read than backlight displays, because they mimic the appearance of ink on paper. You will not experience eye strain after long time reading.

EINK enabled displays are easily readable even in direct sunlight because EINK displays reflect light like ordinary paper.

EINK enabled displays are green

If we could replace all paper newspapers with eNewspapers tomorrow, it would save 95 million trees which could remove 98 million tons of greenhouse gas each year.

EINK Displays save 60% energy vs. LCD/LED. There are 6 billion electronic displays in mobile devices, computers and signage worldwide consuming 2,300,000 Megawatt Hours.

Download more information

Download more information of the project http://www.mediafire.com/download/syu49k3a7gcnrmt/rocktheink.zip

• High resolution photos (JPG, all photos are unmodified!)
  
• Specs (Excel)
  
• Datasheet of RK2918 CPU (PDF)
  
• Data sheet of all panels supported by RockthEink (PDF)

Photo gallery

RK2918 with PVI 8inch color E-INK (Triton):

RK2918 with PVI 9.7inch E-INK: