I've seen a lot of projects over the years that use eink displays for ambient information, but have often disliked both their often small size unless you pay a lot and often them being lacking in touchscreen capabilities which I feel limits what you can do with one. I do however have a reMarkable tablet and wondered if you could use one of those as this display, and 2 years ago I picked up a second hand 1st gen reMarkable. This is a pretty cheap source of eink display, as well as having an actual computer behind it so I don't need to do any hardware work either, which is nice.
As it also turns out, there's a nice community set of software for the reMarkable in the form of toltec as well as a Rust library for writing software for it. My initial use case was showing me whatever my latest game was on Dragon Go Server and so I started writing Fuseki. I did get a little distracted though, getting GNU Go to run on one which isn't really needed for Dragon support, but does have the advantage I now have a nice way to teach my kid Atari Go . I got further distracted doing a mass upgrade for Toltec as some of it's core images were somewhat out of date and didn't work anymore.
Fuseki now works in human vs. machine, human vs human Atari mode and also the intended Dragon Go Server mode, although I'm so far finding the ambient display a little distracting but that might just be a matter of correct placement as "next to my desk" appears to be the wrong answer. It should also eventually get added to toltec but that's being a bit of a slow process given some very busy maintainers there!
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