Hold My Hammer

Sheet B-07 / Builds

Pen Pal

A Kindle with superpowers.

I love Hermes, a personal assistant you can mold however you want. I also had a Kindle Scribe I barely used. So I put the two together.

I worked a little magic on my Kindle, and now I write a question on it by hand and the answer shows up on the page.

Started
Sep 2026
Status
Working
Kind
Hardware

Friday · October 02

Good afternoon, Jose. Two meetings today, and one thing due: order the cabinet hinges.

  • 09:30Kitchen walkthrough with Dana
  • 14:00Coffee with Sam
  • Due todayOrder the cabinet hinges
Handwritten: Why doesn't the ISS fall down?

Fig. 1 Pen Pal. A real question in my handwriting, and the answer it wrote back.

What it's made ofYou only ever see the top layer

  1. 1The page you write onwhat you see
  2. 2Reads your handwriting
  3. 3Hermes, the assistant, answers

What it does

  • Write a question by hand. The answer shows up on the page.
  • Open it and it shows today's meetings and to-dos.
  • Draw a box next to a line and it becomes a task.
  • Tick a task on the page and it's ticked in my to-do app too.

The eraser took six tries

  1. Try 1
  2. Try 2
  3. Try 3
  4. Try 4
  5. Try 5
  6. Try 6: worked

Six separate attempts, all still saved in the project. The first five didn't work.

Fig. 2 The promo. Edited, animated and rendered by my homie Claude, in code. Voice, direction and music: José.