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Cobalt: an SDK for building apps on Kobo e-readers
An SDK for writing custom apps on a single-core 1 GHz Kobo.
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Credits
- Repository account BandarLabs Source ↗
- HN submitter thepoet Source ↗
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The full story
Cobalt is an SDK and app store for Kobo e-readers. These have a single-core processor under 1 GHz and 512 MB of RAM, less than a Raspberry Pi, but a lovely e-ink screen. The author built it to make the apps they wanted, and it includes readers for EPUB, RSS, arXiv and Wallabag, Lichess chess, Syncthing sync and more. It has over 400 GitHub stars.
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From the maker's own write-up or code. We summarise what they report; we haven't tested it ourselves.
- Hacker News: Show HN: Cobalt, an SDK to build apps for Kobo eReadersRepository account: BandarLabs
The SDK and the list of apps.
- Hacker News discussion (5 points)HN submitter: thepoetPosted
The Show HN post.