Abstract
- Supernote leans into repairability with DIY instruments for {hardware} upgrades and replacements.
- Customers can entry substitute elements like batteries, motherboards, and again covers.
- Supernote additionally presents guides for creating customized equipment like pen our bodies and folio covers.
Amongst electronics producers, everybody likes to pay lip service to repairability and sustainability, however few firms truly put their cash the place their mouth is. All-cardboard packaging is en vogue with most OEMs in the meanwhile, and plenty of e-reader firms are utilizing recycled plastic instances on their units, however no firm has totally embraced the DIY scene fairly like Supernote has.
The Supernote DIY bounty
Supernote has been strolling the stroll on the subject of repairability since a minimum of late 2023, when the Nomad got here out, which had a detachable again cowl and an simply replaceable battery. With the launch of the Nomad’s older sibling, the Manta, final December, Supernote upped the sustainability stakes with interchangeable and replaceable motherboards. Now, Supernote is again at it, releasing a slew of DIY instruments into customers’ arms.
For the repair-focused customers on the market, Supernote has put its substitute {hardware} entrance and heart on its new DIY web page. We already knew that it was making substitute batteries, motherboards, and again covers accessible, and seeing Supernote’s proprietary FeelWrite movie can be very welcome. That is the display layer that offers Supernotes their distinctive writing really feel, at the moment on technology 2. Its availability leaves open the potential for making use of the movie to the units of different OEMs.
Along with {hardware} substitute and upgrades, Supernote has launched a variety of guides and sources, essentially the most fascinating of which to me are the 3D STEP information for the Nomad again covers. This implies you gained’t have to purchase a substitute again cowl, you’ll be able to design and print your personal. I might have preferred to have seen a Manta again cowl as effectively, however hopefully that’s coming sooner or later.
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A note-taking expertise that feels excellent
In the event you’re a fan of crafting, you’re actually going to like what Supernote has for you. To start out, it has the specs of its pen refills and a information on the best way to safely mod them to place them in a customized physique. Lastly, it has a DIY folio equipment and information for the Nomad to make your personal folio cowl as fanciful or as rugged as you want. The DIY equipment comes with two fiberglass plates and all of the magnets that you must make your folio cowl as practical as Supernote’s, and the information comes with all the scale you’ll must get began crafting it.
Extra of this please
We wish to make an enormous deal when a {hardware} maker makes any concessions to repairability and sustainability, however few different OEMs have taken it to this stage. This transfer is doubly welcome as a result of in comparison with the likes of Kindle and Kobo, there’s a dearth of third-party equipment for Supernote’s units. And there’s nonetheless extra to come back. Tantalizingly, there’s a placeholder hyperlink to a information referred to as “Pogo Pin DIY Information,” hinting that Supernote could also be opening the door for third-party keyboards and different {hardware} equipment. Hopefully we’ll know extra quickly.
Supernote Manta
The Supernote Manta was already some of the repairable choices available on the market because of interchangeable motherboards and simply replaceable batteries, however with all the brand new DIY instruments launched as we speak, the writing pill is now a beacon of hope for the correct to restore motion.