Glider — 60fps E-Ink Monitor

Glider is an open-source, low-latency e-ink display controller by Wenting Zhang (Modos Labs), capable of driving e-paper panels at up to 60 fps — far beyond typical e-ink refresh rates. It uses a Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA to process video signals and drive raw e-ink panels directly, bypassing the latency of integrated display controllers¹²³.

The project evolved into the Modos Paper Monitor, a commercial open-hardware e-ink monitor and development kit⁴.

Specification	Details
Creator	Wenting Zhang (zephray)
Controller	Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA
Video Input	LVDS (1.05 Gbps per lane)
Grayscale	4-level (low-latency) / 16-level (high-fidelity)
License	Open-source (hardware + gateware)
Source	GitHub / GitLab

Footnotes

1. Presenting maybe the world first 60fps Eink monitor, the Glider! — Twitter (Wenting Zhang, June 2022) ↩

2. Modos-Labs/Glider — GitHub ↩

3. Glider - open source e-ink monitor — Framework Community ↩

4. Modos Paper Monitor — A Technical Deep Dive Into Glider — Crowd Supply ↩