(…Hand model not me, stay out of my DMs…)

Clamshell design, 60% low profile mechanical keyboard, 6” eink display with user-controllable lighting (think Kindle Paperwhite), custom keycaps. Week-long battery life. 

Custom hardware and firmware built only for word processing. Full suite of editing tools: copy, paste, navigation, etc. Makes and organizes .txt or .md files. Custom fonts. Customizable keyboard layout and languages. Saves on SD card, and backs up to internal storage. Full usb support for managing files - or use it as a USB keyboard, in a pinch.

Will it run Linux? No. Command line? No. Doom? No — Well, maybe.

Just boots up and makes text files.

Going with the custom route, away from Linux gets you extreme responsiveness, battery efficiency, instant-on, and great sleep/wake features. Was a lot of work but worth it in the long run. Not every project can do this, but for a writing machine, it makes a lot of sense.

And there’s no perceptible eink lag. Although, honestly, this is getting more commonplace nowadays.

Recently added some cool stuff: built-in fountain and markdown parsing. So, for example, your screenplays look like screenplays as you write.

Been at it for a while, but this feels like a big step forward. I posted my original project here a year or two ago, and this seems like a good time for a follow-up post. 

Zerowriter Fold - https://www.zerowriter.ink/fold

Assembled in 🇨🇦

Feel free to ask questions - about anything from this design, to crowdfunding, to working with crowd supply, to… whatever!

My ideal deck, 2 years in the making