Getting stuff you write off the picowriter

[JpTiger]

This is probably pretty premature, but I'm curious how you plan on getting things off of the picowriter and onto other devices for viewing or editing.

My current setup (that I've wanted to replace with an affordable or DIY e-ink device for years) is an ancient netbook that boots a CLI distro of ubuntu into Wordgrinder and syncs files saved on it using a Linux implementation of OneDrive. It works fine, but battery life and startup time is pretty bad. Plus I just like the experience of e-ink more if all I want to do is write.

I do want to be able to open and edit what I write on other devices though, I'd love it if they just synced using a service like dropbox or onedrive. Still if you have to connect via usb or microsd to load things manually, that's okay. Any thoughts on how that might eventually work?

[deanhuff]

The short answer is, I don't know yet. The pico has 2MB of flash storage. That will have to hold both the application and the documents (unless we add external sd card or an additional flash chip.

Initially I was thinking of a simple bash script that advertises a host computer's address via zeroconf/avahi and opens a udp socket to receive a file. The picowriter would look for these hosts and you could choose to push a file from the picowriter to the host computer.
Once on the target computer, sync to whatever cloud service you want.

Alternatively, the a webdav server may fit onto the picowriter. If so, you could browse to it form your real PC and upload/download docs from there.

Wordgrinder looks like a neat editor, i'll have to check it out.

[deanhuff]

this looks like a promising bit of kit: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pico-wireless-pack