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diff --git a/_site/projects/e-reader/index/index.html b/_site/projects/e-reader/index.html
index dd58a14..bc23c7b 100644
--- a/_site/projects/e-reader/index/index.html
+++ b/_site/projects/e-reader/index.html
@@ -1,12 +1,58 @@
-<p>This project features a prototype e-reader powered by a 7.5-inch Waveshare e-paper display and an
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+ <head>
+ <meta charset="utf-8">
+ <title>Prototype e-reader</title>
+ <head>
+<meta charset="utf-8">
+ <title>Prototype e-reader</title>
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/css/main.css">
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/css/normalize.css">
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/css/skeleton.css">
+</head>
+
+
+ </head>
+ <body>
+
+ <div class="container">
+ <ul id="navlist" class="left">
+ <li >
+ <a href="/">hme</a>
+ </li>
+ <li >
+ <a href="/projects/">tnk</a>
+ </li>
+ <li >
+ <a href="/about/">abt</a>
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="/feed.xml">rss</a></li>
+ </ul>
+</div>
+
+
+
+ <main>
+ <div class="container">
+ <img src="/assets/img/grunge.png" alt="" class="line">
+ <p class="center">[&nbsp;N<sup>o</sup>&nbsp;]
+ <span>&nbsp;</span></p>
+ <img src="/assets/img/grunge.png" alt="" class="line flip">
+
+ <h2 class="brand center" id="title">PROTOTYPE E-READER</h2>
+
+
+ <br>
+ <h4 class="center space"></h4>
+ <h5 class="center">24 OCTOBER 2023</h5>
+
+ <div class="threecol justify">
+ <p>This project features a prototype e-reader powered by a 7.5-inch Waveshare e-paper display and an
ESP-WROOM-32 development board.</p>
-<p>&lt;video style=”max-width:100%” controls=”” poster=thumb.png&gt;</p>
-<source src="ereader.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
+<iframe style="max-width: 100%" src="ereader.mp4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
-<p>&lt;/video&gt;</p>
-
-<h2 id="overview">Overview</h2>
+<h4 id="overview">Overview</h4>
<p>In 2017, during a short stint as a project manager, I was tasked with
installing some e-paper displays in a car park. Not knowing how they worked, I
@@ -35,7 +81,7 @@ system-on-a-chip with a 160 MHz dual-core processor and integrated WiFi. So, I
thought it’d be amusing to embrace the constraints and build my e-reader using
just a $5 MCU and the power of C programming.</p>
-<h2 id="the-file-format">The file format</h2>
+<h4 id="the-file-format">The file format</h4>
<p>The file format dictates the complexity of the embedded software. So, I’ll
begin there. The e-reader works by downloading and rendering a rasterized
@@ -51,7 +97,7 @@ well to HTTP streaming, which is its main advantage, as we will soon see.</p>
PDF documents to an EBM file. I use it to make EBM files before uploading them
to a web server.</p>
-<h2 id="how-does-it-work">How does it work?</h2>
+<h4 id="how-does-it-work">How does it work?</h4>
<p>As the e-reader has no storage, it can’t store books locally. Instead, I first
have to upload the EBM file I want to read to a web server. The location of the
@@ -71,7 +117,7 @@ use the ESP-IDF task API to pin the two routines to each core.</p>
on the current reading progress, the e-reader specifies the page offset and the
chunk size using the HTTP Range header.</p>
-<h2 id="afterword">Afterword</h2>
+<h4 id="afterword">Afterword</h4>
<p>It’s been six years since the car park and the displays. At the time, I knew
nothing about embedded systems or display drivers. It took a long time to
@@ -79,3 +125,12 @@ develop the skill set, but now, at last, I know how those displays worked and
how to build my own.</p>
<p>Files: <a href="source.tar.gz">source.tar.gz</a></p>
+
+ </div>
+
+ <p class="right italics">by W. D. Sadeep Madurange</p>
+ </div>
+ </main>
+
+ </body>
+</html>
diff --git a/_site/projects/index.html b/_site/projects/index.html
index 15ffb96..d1fcb18 100644
--- a/_site/projects/index.html
+++ b/_site/projects/index.html
@@ -1,28 +1,32 @@
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en-us">
<head>
- <meta charset="utf-8">
- <title>Projects</title>
- <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/css/main.css">
- <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/css/normalize.css">
- <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/css/skeleton.css">
- </head>
+<meta charset="utf-8">
+ <title>Projects</title>
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/css/main.css">
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/css/normalize.css">
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/css/skeleton.css">
+</head>
+
+
<body>
-
+
<div class="container">
- <ul id="navlist" class="left">
- <li >
- <a href="/">hme</a>
- </li>
- <li class="active">
- <a href="/projects/">tnk</a>
- </li>
- <li >
- <a href="/about/">abt</a>
- </li>
- <li><a href="/feed.xml">rss</a></li>
- </ul>
- </div>
+ <ul id="navlist" class="left">
+ <li >
+ <a href="/">hme</a>
+ </li>
+ <li class="active">
+ <a href="/projects/">tnk</a>
+ </li>
+ <li >
+ <a href="/about/">abt</a>
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="/feed.xml">rss</a></li>
+ </ul>
+</div>
+
+
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