WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:16.000 That means reduced Alexander, so to with his presentation on from prototype to production and it will be about models that you are developer. 00:16.000 --> 00:17.000 Yes. 00:17.000 --> 00:18.000 Yes. 00:18.000 --> 00:20.000 Please welcome Alexander. 00:20.000 --> 00:25.000 Awesome. 00:25.000 --> 00:27.000 Thank you for the presentation. 00:27.000 --> 00:28.000 Thank you everyone for here. 00:28.000 --> 00:30.000 So my name is Alexander Soto. 00:30.000 --> 00:32.000 I'm the founder of models. 00:32.000 --> 00:36.000 And yeah, from prototype to production and crowdfunding and shipping, the models paper. 00:36.000 --> 00:39.000 So first things first. 00:39.000 --> 00:41.000 Thank you everyone who backed the campaign. 00:41.000 --> 00:43.000 People who are here, people who online. 00:43.000 --> 00:46.000 Thank you as a very long process to get to this point. 00:47.000 --> 00:54.000 We were able to get it funded around the 200 sort of mark with our backers and over 180% funded. 00:54.000 --> 00:56.000 So thank you so much. 00:56.000 --> 01:00.000 The campaign started around August and we were finished in September. 01:00.000 --> 01:01.000 It was a lot of work. 01:01.000 --> 01:04.000 So I just want to say thank you for your support. 01:04.000 --> 01:10.000 And then with that, this is sort of like the dev kit that we built. 01:10.000 --> 01:12.000 And you could see our board up there. 01:12.000 --> 01:16.000 This is sort of a third 13 inch e-ring display and also a doctor. 01:16.000 --> 01:18.000 Is your first time hearing about models? 01:18.000 --> 01:19.000 So what are we here? 01:19.000 --> 01:21.000 I'm going to get into that in a little bit more. 01:21.000 --> 01:25.000 But here, just so I'm just showing some picture kind of behind the scenes. 01:25.000 --> 01:28.000 Here, we have many, many boxes of e-ring displays. 01:28.000 --> 01:36.000 We have some folks who are sort of like assembling and testing the actual panels themselves in the board. 01:36.000 --> 01:39.000 Here, again, testing the FDA, testing USB-C, 01:39.000 --> 01:43.000 make us sure assembly is going well. 01:43.000 --> 01:47.000 And yes, also just going through the whole process of certification. 01:47.000 --> 01:50.000 Never thought about putting a logo and a cardboard box. 01:50.000 --> 01:53.000 So thinking about what that even looks like itself. 01:53.000 --> 01:56.000 And also what you see here, the multiple boxes. 01:56.000 --> 01:59.000 That's the first shipment that we did or about six years. 01:59.000 --> 02:06.000 So units that are heading right now to crowdsify to be delivered to the first backers. 02:06.000 --> 02:09.000 So thank you so much. 02:09.000 --> 02:14.000 And yeah, I'm really excited to be able to get this into people's hands. 02:14.000 --> 02:16.000 So a little bit of background. 02:16.000 --> 02:17.000 What is it? 02:17.000 --> 02:19.000 So electric variety displays. 02:19.000 --> 02:24.000 So commonly found in like e-veaders or tablets, for example, like remarkable and such. 02:24.000 --> 02:30.000 If you've used them before, they are charge particles that are suspended in micro capsules. 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 That form in a particular image. 02:32.000 --> 02:33.000 They're reflective. 02:33.000 --> 02:36.000 That is to say that you use like ambient light. 02:36.000 --> 02:38.000 To be able to show the particular content. 02:38.000 --> 02:40.000 There is an particular backlight. 02:40.000 --> 02:41.000 It is by stable. 02:41.000 --> 02:45.000 So if you've seen it, for example, at a particular store. 02:45.000 --> 02:48.000 We see electronic shelf labels that it's kind of commonly found. 02:48.000 --> 02:53.000 Once the image is drawn, it kind of stays there without power. 02:53.000 --> 02:58.000 Typically, low refresh rates and extremely low power draw. 02:58.000 --> 03:01.000 And you see them in monochrome color. 03:01.000 --> 03:04.000 And also some of like with light. 03:04.000 --> 03:08.000 And if you use an e-veader, you can say that it's really great for sort of reading, writing, 03:08.000 --> 03:13.000 and just in environments with sort of like natural light. 03:13.000 --> 03:18.000 So what we've done is that we've built those sort of first open hardware, electric ferritic, 03:18.000 --> 03:20.000 display controller. 03:20.000 --> 03:24.000 That is the sort of part that drives the particular e-ink screen. 03:24.000 --> 03:27.000 So what we're able to do is one, make it open. 03:27.000 --> 03:33.000 And by making it open, that means that you can reuse your existing displays from your e-readers, 03:33.000 --> 03:34.000 from your tablets. 03:34.000 --> 03:36.000 So anything between six inches to 13 inches. 03:36.000 --> 03:39.000 Now you have a board that you can reuse these displays. 03:39.000 --> 03:44.000 Which is great if you have many of them that are stored somewhere in your house or neighbor. 03:44.000 --> 03:46.000 You can reuse these displays. 03:46.000 --> 03:53.000 I think second part of it is that we're able to drive these displays very fast at about 75 Hertz. 03:53.000 --> 04:00.000 So if most e-readers, if you're used on your flip in a page, it takes some flicker or delay, 04:00.000 --> 04:06.000 we're able to push that to 75 Hertz and make it more common for a day-to-day use cases. 04:06.000 --> 04:11.000 And we also support as well as color screens. 04:11.000 --> 04:17.000 So here you can see sort of an iteration of the particular board from earlier iterations that we did 04:17.000 --> 04:22.000 to the more final board design that we have here. 04:22.000 --> 04:25.000 And also I want to give again again a thanks to NellNet. 04:25.000 --> 04:33.000 Because of NellNet, we were able to apply for a grant that allowed us to finish our prototype and get into people's hands. 04:33.000 --> 04:39.000 If you're interested, you have an open source project and you're interested to highly recommend applying to NellNet. 04:39.000 --> 04:41.000 And a little bit what you've seen here. 04:41.000 --> 04:43.000 So here's sort of the breakdown of the board. 04:43.000 --> 04:51.000 What we're doing is we're using FPGA, specifically a Spartan 6 FPGA, that allows us to have a perfect control of the screen. 04:51.000 --> 04:54.000 And be able to refresh it at the high speeds. 04:54.000 --> 04:59.000 We use an SDM32 for different miscellaneous functions and like initialization. 04:59.000 --> 05:04.000 And also some power circuitry with sort of a power supply and power monitoring. 05:04.000 --> 05:11.000 There's a much more detailed, really good weekend read on our GitHub repository that's very detailed for folks who want to know more. 05:11.000 --> 05:20.000 And also our CrowdSupply page as well as as well if the updates has a lot more technical detail as well if you're interested. 05:20.000 --> 05:24.000 So that would be the page that I was just speaking about right now. 05:24.000 --> 05:30.000 If you do models.tack, models with a home, models.tack for a slash GitHub. 05:30.000 --> 05:35.000 It'll take you to our repository where you can find the particular read me. 05:35.000 --> 05:36.000 So who needs this? 05:36.000 --> 05:42.000 So beyond people who are using your e-beaters, people who want to have more of a balanced digital life. 05:42.000 --> 05:47.000 People who want to reduce screen time, people who want to avoid stimulation. 05:47.000 --> 05:50.000 People who have some form of like health sensitivity. 05:50.000 --> 05:58.000 For example, migraines, eye strain, epilepsy, or there's kind of like eye related conditions. 05:58.000 --> 06:04.000 And then Packers, makers, people who have an idea for a particular tool and want to be able to make something different. 06:04.000 --> 06:07.000 This is sort of like what abuse of them. 06:07.000 --> 06:10.000 So here just showing some like quick little videos. 06:10.000 --> 06:14.000 This is sort of showing a browsing mode with one of our earlier monitors. 06:14.000 --> 06:22.000 I just want video seeing how it works at 60 Hertz. 06:22.000 --> 06:24.000 And then I'm back and I'm going over here. 06:24.000 --> 06:27.000 So this is our 16-level grayscale mode. 06:27.000 --> 06:30.000 That's just sort of like scrolling a PDF very fast. 06:30.000 --> 06:33.000 Where it's scrolling, it switches to just a black and white mode. 06:33.000 --> 06:36.000 And then when it pauses, you saw that initial flash. 06:36.000 --> 06:38.000 It does a 16-level grayscale. 06:38.000 --> 06:43.000 In order for you to have the highest fidelity when you view documents in such. 06:43.000 --> 06:49.000 And then here sort of demonstrating the low-laden CR typing. 06:49.000 --> 06:52.000 So again, the browsing mode showing video. 06:52.000 --> 06:56.000 I'll allow you to just switch between tabs and do things. 06:56.000 --> 06:59.000 Scrolling no longer really an issue moving extremely fast. 06:59.000 --> 07:03.000 And also very low input-laden thing. 07:03.000 --> 07:06.000 EHA, eye frame. 07:06.000 --> 07:07.000 Come on. 07:07.000 --> 07:09.000 You can do it. 07:10.000 --> 07:14.000 Okay, hey, great. 07:14.000 --> 07:15.000 Awesome. 07:15.000 --> 07:20.000 So we also have an SDK that we're working on that has a CAPI 07:20.000 --> 07:23.000 with binding to the FPGA. 07:23.000 --> 07:27.000 So that allows you to be able to define the particular modes or 07:27.000 --> 07:29.000 our rendering strategies. 07:29.000 --> 07:33.000 And here in this video, we can also split the screen. 07:33.000 --> 07:37.000 So imagine this being a four particular quadrants. 07:38.000 --> 07:41.000 Each quarter, it could run a different mode. 07:41.000 --> 07:45.000 So here on the bottom right, you see a text sort of the cart racing. 07:45.000 --> 07:47.000 Going at a very low mode. 07:47.000 --> 07:52.000 Then up top where the maps is, we have a 16-level grayscale. 07:52.000 --> 07:54.000 That's also happening. 07:54.000 --> 07:57.000 And then in the screen storage of left-hand side, 07:57.000 --> 08:00.000 just sort of back-it-white mono for low. 08:00.000 --> 08:05.000 So something that we're able to do now is be able to define which regions 08:05.000 --> 08:08.000 should have the lowest possible input latency, which 08:08.000 --> 08:11.000 readers should have the highest amount of fidelity. 08:11.000 --> 08:15.000 And here's a bit of a diagram to explain what I'm sort of talking about. 08:15.000 --> 08:19.000 So having a browsing mode at one bit back-and-white, a reading mode, 08:19.000 --> 08:20.000 and then the other ones. 08:20.000 --> 08:25.000 That's something we're able to do with our API that has a C, Python, and 08:25.000 --> 08:27.000 Rust bindings. 08:27.000 --> 08:30.000 So with this, what kind of becomes possible? 08:30.000 --> 08:34.000 So future sort of imagine or future that I would want to sort of 08:34.000 --> 08:37.000 come to see is be able to have computing devices that 08:37.000 --> 08:40.000 feel native when it comes to using our e-ink. 08:40.000 --> 08:43.000 Having sort of these compute environments, that sort of 08:43.000 --> 08:49.000 support focus, reflections, lower thinking, and also having more 08:49.000 --> 08:52.000 minimalist tools for people who are writers, developers or 08:52.000 --> 08:55.000 readers, and kind of researchers. 08:55.000 --> 08:58.000 When we think about e-readers, there's sort of this very specific 08:58.000 --> 09:02.000 tailored hardware and tailored software that is 09:02.000 --> 09:04.000 divided for this very specific purpose. 09:04.000 --> 09:07.000 I believe by being able to increase refresh rate, 09:07.000 --> 09:09.000 making things that are open and open, and 09:09.000 --> 09:12.000 making it available to the community, we can also sort of 09:12.000 --> 09:15.000 redefine what are computed devices could be, and be able 09:15.000 --> 09:19.000 to cater to people who have different needs. 09:19.000 --> 09:23.000 And also, bit of a shout out to one of our community 09:23.000 --> 09:27.000 members, Leo, or incredible, who sort of been working on 09:27.000 --> 09:30.000 this and hacking on this, and then also people in our community 09:30.000 --> 09:34.000 who have different things that they've started working on and 09:34.000 --> 09:35.000 remixing. 09:35.000 --> 09:38.000 And I think by making things that are open, this is the part that 09:38.000 --> 09:41.000 I'm most excited about is seeing what is it that people do. 09:41.000 --> 09:43.000 What is it that people kind of think about? 09:43.000 --> 09:46.000 What is it that they want to be able to make and remix? 09:46.000 --> 09:49.000 So we're sort of seeing the beginnings of that, and 09:49.000 --> 09:53.000 this is what after about three or four years working on this, 09:53.000 --> 09:55.000 this is what sort of energizes me to be able to see what 09:55.000 --> 09:58.000 others make and be able to expand and sort of redefine 09:58.000 --> 10:03.000 what this needs or what this market can do. 10:03.000 --> 10:06.000 And then this is a little bit of a sneak peak, 10:06.000 --> 10:08.000 first people to say it here. 10:08.000 --> 10:12.000 So this is our motosaw paper monitor. 10:12.000 --> 10:16.000 So this is a new board that we're working on. 10:16.000 --> 10:18.000 That's also going to continue to be open. 10:18.000 --> 10:22.000 This has an aluminum chassis, 13.3-inch screen 10:22.000 --> 10:26.000 color with touch and stylish support. 10:26.000 --> 10:31.000 Work through USB-C and we're working on making it available 10:31.000 --> 10:34.000 next month for beginning. 10:34.000 --> 10:38.000 And here you can sort of see some of the images. 10:38.000 --> 10:44.000 It also has a best amount in the back and also a keyboard cover. 10:44.000 --> 10:49.000 And it also works with a stylus using the, 10:49.000 --> 10:53.000 oh my god, USB stylus standard. 10:53.000 --> 10:58.000 And yeah, also just for an example what it can be done. 10:58.000 --> 11:00.000 So that's kind of quickly it. 11:00.000 --> 11:01.000 I have some links here. 11:01.000 --> 11:04.000 You can reach me at alicsatmotos.tuck. 11:04.000 --> 11:07.000 We'll also have a matrix, a discord in our GitHub, 11:07.000 --> 11:09.000 and also our crowds apply. 11:09.000 --> 11:12.000 I'll also be available a little bit throughout today. 11:12.000 --> 11:16.000 I have both a sample of the dev kit and also our sort of 11:16.000 --> 11:18.000 next generation monitor. 11:18.000 --> 11:21.000 If you have a laptop that works with Thunderbolt, 11:21.000 --> 11:24.000 USB-C and you want to give it a go. 11:24.000 --> 11:26.000 We can find a table and try it out. 11:26.000 --> 11:27.000 But that's it. 11:27.000 --> 11:29.000 And thank you very much. 11:29.000 --> 11:30.000 Thank you. 11:30.000 --> 11:35.000 And I think we have time for questions. 11:35.000 --> 11:38.000 Yeah, we have time for questions. 11:38.000 --> 11:50.000 Hello. 11:50.000 --> 11:51.000 Hello. 11:51.000 --> 11:57.000 So I wanted to know why you chose that specific aspect ratio. 11:57.000 --> 12:01.000 The for which one for this here. 12:01.000 --> 12:02.000 Yes. 12:02.000 --> 12:03.000 And the previous one. 12:03.000 --> 12:04.000 This one. 12:04.000 --> 12:05.000 Yes. 12:05.000 --> 12:06.000 Yeah. 12:06.000 --> 12:07.000 So this one. 12:07.000 --> 12:08.000 So the default pan. 12:08.000 --> 12:12.000 These are newer panors that came out sometime like last year. 12:12.000 --> 12:17.000 That having that high resolution of 3,000 to 100 by 1600. 12:17.000 --> 12:19.000 Offer is a higher out PPI. 12:19.000 --> 12:22.000 So typically when we're looking at what's got a collido. 12:22.000 --> 12:24.000 What comes to these particular screens. 12:24.000 --> 12:26.000 Having a lower PPI. 12:26.000 --> 12:28.000 When using different data range or different algorithms. 12:28.000 --> 12:29.000 You can sort of not. 12:29.000 --> 12:30.000 The images and come has clear. 12:30.000 --> 12:33.000 So by having this sort of higher resolution. 12:33.000 --> 12:36.000 You can see a lot more definition and fidelity. 12:36.000 --> 12:39.000 And these are sort of these particular new screens. 12:39.000 --> 12:42.000 That's the maximum resolution that it can run. 12:42.000 --> 12:44.000 We can also run it at a lower resolution.