# Play Text Adventures on an E-Paper Handheld

DevFeed: [Play Text Adventures on an E-Paper Handheld](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/play-text-adventures-on-an-e-paper-handheld-122311.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://hackaday.com/2026/11/07/play-text-adventures-on-an-e-paper-handheld/>)

Author: Navarre Bartz

Published: 2026-11-08T00:00:30Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hackaday](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hackaday.md>)

Topics: [e-ink](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/e-ink.md>), [generative-ai-tools](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/generative-ai-tools.md>)

Tags: [3d](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/3d.md>), [3d-printed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/3d-printed.md>), [captive-portal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/captive-portal.md>), [choose-your-own-adventure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/choose-your-own-adventure.md>), [e-paper](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/e-paper.md>), [eink](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/eink.md>), [esp32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/esp32.md>), [esp32-c3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/esp32-c3.md>), [game](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/game.md>), [gameboy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gameboy.md>), [games](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/games.md>), [gemini](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gemini.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [handheld](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/handheld.md>), [internet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internet.md>), [led](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/led.md>), [library](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/library.md>), [lighting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/lighting.md>), [mood](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mood.md>), [pcb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pcb.md>), [port](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/port.md>), [rgb-led](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rgb-led.md>)

## AI overview

Jeremy Ngai's e-paper handheld runs generated choose-your-own-adventure stories. It combines a 2.9-inch e-paper screen, rotary encoder and RGB mood light, with an estimated 20 hours of use per charge. On first boot, users configure Wi-Fi through a captive portal; once online, the device contacts Gemini to generate a story. The excerpt notes that a library of human-written stories could be an alternative, but does not describe that functionality as implemented.

## Source excerpt

Choose your own adventure books were one of the first media to become gamified in the computer era, and [Jeremy Ngai] wanted to bridge the experience further with an e-paper ...read more