While researching the product, I came across four excellent projects where people drove raw E-Paper displays:

• Petteri Aimonen's Essential Scrap E-Ink Project
• sprite_tm's WiFi E-Ink Display
• sapir's E-Ink Display Adapter
• Wenting Z.'s NekoCal E-Ink Calender

I'll stand on the shoulder of giants for this - my strategy will be to approach it in a few steps.

1. Reproduce the results the others have had with an initial breakout.
2. Work on the A/D or protocol decoding for some monitor interface
   1. VGA?
   2. DVI?
   3. HDMI? (Probably not, HDMI -> DVI adapters are common enough)
3. Wrap it up in a decent looking package

Feasibility

Feasibility isn't an issue here, it seems that raw E-Paper displays have been driven enough times to give this a go without it being a large risk. By doing this in a modular fashion I should have a useful part even if, say, I only get through 2 out of 3 of my steps.

As for me? I do have graphics experience from past entries - although that was emitting graphics, not consuming them, haha. See my VGATonic 2015 Graphic Card Best Product entry as well as my 2014 initial project logs.

I'm hopeful I can get something going here.