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Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor

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I wrote a Go program to receive files on port 8000 and then invoke eips, which is Kindle's built-in utility to draw images on the screen unfortunately I lost the Go source code, but it was pretty simple, like under 30 lines I wrote a script to use screencapture on macOS to repeatedly capture the screen into a png file, which is then converted into a shape, size and color the Kindle likes using imagemagick, and then transferred over usbnet using netcat

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