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TRMNL
Company blog · trmnl.com/blog · on HN as ryanckulphardwaredesign
TRMNL is the company blog at trmnl.com, writing about hardware and design. Since 2026, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Show HN: Making an 1800mah e-ink device last up to 6 months”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mention TRMNL as an e-paper display device and platform for e-ink dashboards, often as an alternative to DIY builds. The comments point to the product rather than praising any writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
TRMNL is an open-source ePaper display that surfaces what matters — calendars, weather, dashboards and 1,000+ plugins — at a glance, without the distractions of a phone.
Most-linked posts?
- /6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2026-02-22
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-23
- Show HN: Making an 1800mah e-ink device last up to 6 months2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-24
What Hacker News says?
Any easy way to get started on your own version of this without needing a mic would be to pull birds seen nearby using the eBird API and pairing scientific names. Won't be as accurate as a backyard mic, but will give you a direction to start. Also if you have old e-ink device laying around, you can likely setup BYOD with TRMNL (or just buy one https://trmnl.com/ ) and send the bird images as a private plugin
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on “Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations”Submitted Show HN: Making an 1800mah e-ink device last up to 6 months as a story · 6 points
HN discussionBut you know it's important because of the italics . As long as it's understood as an opinion piece it's tolerable despite – as you note – the “revealed preference”. ## Appliance Computing: Take "consoles" for instance. I got tired of building gaming PCs, and after another long day of making computers work, enjoy turning on an Xbox Series X and just doing what the box is there for, much as I appreciate the glass sla…
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on “Your Phone Is an Entire Computer”Submitted Show HN: Vibe Coding a $20k /Year Enterprise Logistics Platform as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSmall suggestion on page navigation... I was not familiar with at TRMNL was and from the link I went to there was no way to get to the "home page" of the product ( https://trmnl.com ) I did not see anything in the footer section and clicking on the logo on top only sent me to Help home. I was trapped with no easy way to learn more about you guys
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on “AI Agent – TRMNL”Submitted Framework: The first ePaper design system as a story · 1 points
HN discussionwe call it Developer Edition, i think this is functionality the same. https://trmnl.com/blog/developer-edition
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on “I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard”Submitted Power Efficiency – why we care so much about it as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTRMNL seems like a good option. I found it in another comment here. https://trmnl.com/
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on “I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard”You might be interested in knowing about https://trmnl.com . No affiliation beyond interest in buying a few in the future. They have a 10.3" version in the works.
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on “I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard”Maybe the folks at TRMNL? https://trmnl.com/
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on “I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard”Someone already said it, but what about TRMNL? https://trmnl.com/
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on “Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader”TRMNL are kinda. https://trmnl.com/
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on “Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader”
