Jailbreaking an e-reader into a custom weather display

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I repurposed an old Kobo Aura 2 into a small e-ink weather station.I used YAWK as a base, trimmed the default interface down to the pieces I actually wanted, and added a custom message box powered by a small Next.js API. The goal was to make it useful as an always-on display instead of keeping it as an unused e-reader.The post covers the Kobo side, the software setup, and some of the annoying parts like file transfer and line endings.

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