---
title: "Rust (and Slint) on a jailbroken Kindle."
url: https://daily.dev/posts/rust-and-slint-on-a-jailbroken-kindle--jpncdartp
source_url: https://sverre.me/blog/rust-on-kindle
type: article
source: "Lobsters"
published: 2026-05-30T21:34:02.294Z
updated: 2026-05-30T21:34:28.852Z
tags: ["rust"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 29
comments: 5
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# Rust (and Slint) on a jailbroken Kindle.

**[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 5 min read · 29 upvotes · 5 comments

## Summary

A developer jailbroke a 7th-gen Kindle Paperwhite and got Rust running on it using cross-compilation via cargo-zigbuild targeting ARMv7 musl. They then integrated the Slint GUI framework by writing a custom backend that renders to the e-ink framebuffer via /dev/fb0 and reads touch input from /dev/input/event1 using the Linux multi-touch protocol. The result is a working Slint backend for Kindle, published as a crate on crates.io, with plans to build a Home Assistant dashboard on top of it.

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**@akkitto** · 1 upvotes

> Cool. Perhas should get out my ancient one and try something with it.

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