⇒ Open Book Touch: A pocketable, front-lit, open source e-reader — for every book, in every language

Open Book Touch is the device I’ve been trying to build for six years: a small, beautiful, completely open source e-book reader that does one thing and does it well. There are no physical buttons on the front; the device is a single, perfectly symmetrical 4.26-inch front-lit e-paper touchscreen, one centimeter thin in its enclosure. Open Book Touch slips into a pocket and disappears until you unlock it to read.

• https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/open-book-touch

⇒ Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own

While Valve will not be making and providing their own e-ink display for the Steam Machine, they have opened it up so anyone can now do it. Valve originally teased it with the first lot of reviewers that got their hands on it.

All of it is available on their GitLab under the MIT license, which goes over everything you need to make your own and stick it on the front of your fancy new Steam Machine.

• https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-open-source-the-steam-machine-e-ink-screen-so-you-can-make-your-own/
• https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/SteamHardware/SteamMachine/inkterface

⇒ Open Printer: Progress Update & Details About Our Nomination for a French Design Award!

Building an inkjet printer from scratch is a massive undertaking that spans multiple engineering disciplines. While we have already solved the major foundational challenges to ensure Openprinter is a viable, high-quality product, the devil is always in the details.

We are working tirelessly on the finishing touches before we launch our Crowd Supply campaign at some point in the next few months. Here is a look at where we stand and what we are refining right now.

• https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer/updates/progress-update-and-details-about-our-nomination-for-a-french-design-award