Trolling My Mom With an E-Paper Picture 

I thought that was the idea... Get a group pic and start changing things moving people around, adding famous people, putting weird hats every day. Someone did that manually swapping the picture every day until their parents noticed, can't find the video.

exactly this!

or something like dorian gray would be funny

Back to the future. That would be a great prank.

This might be the best idea there has ever been in the history of humanity!

For moms anythings worth it.

she seems very smart. probably knew what was up immediately

@@ethyr yeah, you don’t set up a cam to give your mom a framed pic

Curse of high expectations. Its good to fail sometimes and tell about it, so you dont get miracle worker reputation. I mean sure i can do miracles but that takes time and there are things even i cant do, mostly coding and electronics.

This may me a case of: In Poker, you can't bluff a player who doesn't know the value of the cards. Meaning unless she follows along tech, she can't judge how special this is. There's smartphones, there's smart-homes that control themselves, there are AI voice assisants. A photo frame that changes pictures will not shock such a user.

She probably opened the picture frame the moment she thought something was weird XD

Behind the any smart man defensively is a smart Mom.

Great project, but not so sure about trying to make his mum think she has Alzheimer's. Happy that she knew exactly what was going on.

@@makers_lab BARF. give it up. You don't have to find something to complain about with everything you come across. And that one's a stretch.

@@TheTuttle99 Of course that wasn't his intention, and it's a fun gag, but it wouldn't have been nice to have pushed it further.

"Bill, shall I throw this POS gift out? It's the same damn picture as I already got, how did he not know? Oh wait, never mind".

He totes promised me he wouldn't say anything.

"Damnit mom you were supposed to be confused not appreciative!"

I figured she just tried to switch out the photo and use the frame since she already had it up. Then she noticed all the wires and was like, nope...

I'm glad I could still do that for my mom.

I wish I understood that feeling

@@Mega-Brick :(

I think this is a particularly compelling aspect of the display.

It looks a lot like the RDR2 loading screens with the developing film, it looks really cool!

@s8wc3 No kidding! Even sort of blinking like an old Neon light struggling to start up.

Needs to change over more often, a charging circuit and a USB socket is in order.

@@HarryPorpise thats what I was going to say it really does

Absolutely. Add a changeable battery and maybe bleutooth for changing images and this is a great product.

It's literally just the screen. It doesn't come with malware or ANY ware. The guy had to make his own driver for it. Did you even watch the video?

@@tenalpoen they are referring to an incident with old digital photo frames that had malware. that's why he said "like the old ones"

Everyone knows about those. This is not a digital photo frame product being sold by anyone. It's just a display with no driver, power supply, or anything else. If you were to buy it, you wouldn't be able to do anything with it on its own.

@@tenalpoen yeah he was just making a joke lmao

Thanks :)

I was thinking they were going to do like a photoshop type prank where while no one noticed a picture is taken and then added to the picture frame.

Covid believers tend to not ask many questions.

Based on the thumbnail and title I assumed the video was going to be a prank in the more typical sense where when your mother is alone it displays a ghost in the background of the photos but when other people are there the ghost disappears.

@@DieselRamcharger I am very sorry that I have to disappoint you. There's no reason for "believe" here at all. Such things can easily be proved by science. Your saying says a lot more about you than you might be aware of, because apparently YOUR world view is based on such naive foundations and you simply infer others from yourself. So you made just an absolute complete idiot out of yourself beside that you brabble was off-topic. Oh and you can't be a troll. They have usually more than one brain-cells (in most cases two ... so that they can be friends in that desert).

This is a very good suggestion, the best thing he could have done!

Had the same idea! Made subtle changes to make her lose her mind haha. And only change things every few days or once a week - not once a day.

​@@Melian_Dialogue Dude, you and all the people saying "don't make your mom think she's got memory/congnitive issues, that's a mean thing to do" can really shut up. Don't you realise this kind of "joke" can be played on almost anybody? It's not made extra funny just because you do it to an older person. Literally most normal people aren't thinking that, I've only seen it mentioned in comments criticising the joke! There are some "stars" that need to line up for this to work, namely you need someone who would appreciate such a gift in the first place, and actually still puts up pictures around the house, but someone that's not gonna fuss over matching styles and reframing the photo, etc etc. A mom makes perfect sense for this kind of thing... and sure you get some wholesome points for it too, but the joke works just as well if it were some 22 y/o doing it to their 49 y/o mom, no need to have connotations of "going senile". You and others are just fabricating that, because it seems you can't fathom such a joke being ok?

I really like this idea! I wish I had thought of this more before doing it. If only I had two moms.

My thoughts exactly! Could have been a much better pay off

Ok, ok, I get it. This comment has 42 upvotes.

Thanks

Because every "great son" tries to make their mother think she has Alzheimer's? :(

@@seanseoltoir oh shut up you old hack

Because only a great son writes efficient code

A couple other people have suggested similar ideas. I really like it.

Agree.

This is literally the most liked video I have ever made at 1,000 views, I think. We're at under 3,000 and I'm already up to 630 likes. So, maybe I can't get out of making other videos like this?

I certainly enjoy the more in depth videos

@@CNLohr Yassssss!

@@CNLohr I think the problem is: you explain clearly your what you want to do, and how you achieved it. Some of your other videos turned me off, because somewhere along the way you lost me. I generally like what you do, and am really impressed by the amount of knowledge you have, I myself couldn't implement a protocol like scsi for life of me, but the process there sometimes is long winded and hard to understand, so I get it that editing this down and preparing a nice presentation is really hard.

That is *really* sneaky!

It really is amazing, but I found out bizquit has something that's even better for some applications. I hope to try it in the future. Look up "Joel Yliluoma's arbitrary-palette positional dithering algorithm"

@@CNLohr Hehe, already knew that one :P It's great though, way more capable than "vanilla" Floyd-Steinberg(but also more complex). bizquit is awesome, he's the main reason I started doing graphics programming.

@@kurtlamprecht93 No you haven't. The reason why you couldn't store all your memories in your house is because you were unable to frame every picture. technically you can have a photo album or box of photos, but what I'm saying is very different. You don't really have all of your memories when it's in a box or the hard drive of a computer. Having an e-inc display for photos gives you some of those memories back because otherwise they would be collecting dust or taking up storage on your phone or something like that. You are right, but if you're going to go that far you could easily say that the only place where all of your memories are stored is your brain.

yea I could not believe the insanity.... 😮 edit: yea its 3 year old video, but still...I would never ever, even then😂😂😂😂

LOLZ the brainwashing is strong with this one.

Bro not posted a video in 6 months. Hope he's fully boosted.

I usually don't go in unless I go all in :-D

That's how i read the first time too lol

27th - 29th April at Taiwan Touch (a fair) a new generation of E Ink will be presented. This new gen of screens will be able too do animations and videos. They didn't announce a refreshrate. I can't wait for it.

@kızgın tosbağa 15 second refresh is kinda slow

@kızgın tosbağa Even for a color e-reader. Waiting 15 seconds to turn the page of a color comic book is a bit tedious.

@kızgın tosbağa did you mean to say "seconds" ?

@kızgın tosbağa It would be very good as a billboard since you only need to turn on lights at light. During the day it would use almost no power.

Someday I hope to play with them in a way where I can control them with more fidelity.

I hadn't considered any of these when I made this!

Get it

I think the biggest issue was that I cannot accurately display the colors because they are not as vivid. So, doing it the way I landed on provides the "most" vividness that can be done without supersaturation.

Yes exactly. This is because the gamut volume of the display is far smaller because it is based on subtractive color science and not additive. Meaning it can only reflect light and not produce it like say an Oled panel. This is also why printing color spaces are narrower than display color spaces. So soft proofing is used on the display to simulate the narrower space of a printing medium. Additionally, you are basically working with a kind of 3bit display 😂 so only 1 bit for brightness info and 2bits for the shades and then using dithering to trick the eye into seeing colors that are not there. But actually using the palette you derived from the picture you took in the conversion algorithm would basically be a way to soft proof or simulate, what the final picture would look under the specific lighting conditions you took the photo under. So you could technically use it in extreme cases to then adjust the original picture (say you observed severe banding on the eInk display and wanted to adjust the picture before converting it again), then simulate the output on your pc monitor without the need to send it to your mum to put it on the display, maybe tweak it again and then use the 'optimal' palette on the picture for the final conversion. Anyways this is a great example of color spaces and working with limited color volume 👍

Ok, just one more.

Thanks!

That would be really cool. It's unfortunate the color displays need to redraw the whole display to update.

Or make them slowly get fatter lol

It's been so long now, and it's been in and out of stock many times since.

I've got one more video like it now, that I really put a ton of effort into. Hopefully it gets approved by all parties and will release this week.

@@CNLohr Very cool! I'm subscribed to the Patreon and will be watching out for it :)

Yes, before Covid you could not tell who had extreme and unreasonable levels of mysophobia just by looking at them. Now you can.

There will only ever be one!

@@CNLohr I would buy it because I have no time for making it myself. Love the idea.

You can buy a changing picture frame. It just uses more power, so it has a wire attached to it.

@@weorldedit That's the problem these days. There is always a tradeoff between high fidelity and high power consumption. With people so used to plugging/charging any and every electronic device they own, they rather have a 4K smart picture frame that uses 10W and needs a power cable, than a dithered, low-res e-ink one that lasts over a year on a single 760mAh charge.

Use a logic analyzer to look at the waveforms and make sure they are correct.

Would be cool!

Maybe he was expecting a visitor.

All good ideas, but my mom's birthday came too soon.

Or she saw riiight through it.

Considering the ESP8266 does great deep sleep, you could probably make it last a loong time. That said, this uses a little less power.

Unfortunately, I still did not have one for my upcoming video... but, I will get one sooner or later.

I keep coming back to it too, with other ideas and takes... Not sure if I will get one of them done though!

Just learn and keep learning!

At least not this mom.

@@alexander5563 That comment is about what you would expect from someone who is bereft of even an iota of wisdom.

@@alexander5563 Is that supposed to be English?

Indeed. He was even wearing masks on his live stream alone in a room.

I'm not sure what you mean?

Maybe she's immunocompromised. Either way you don't diss anyone's mum

Thanks!

Who knows where it comes from or where it goes, but the algorithm controls all.