/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Sorry if this idea seems kinda retarded, but I've grown fond of it

Basically, I want to make a speed reader thingy such as gif related, using a raspberry pi and a backlit lcd, I would mount it on the wall in front of my bed so I can read stuff before falling asleep, the backlit display is obviously there to read with the lights turned off in the room.

I have some programming experience, but I don't know if regular backlit LCD displays would be able to handle 600+ WPM, or whether the raspberry pi is the cheapest hardware I could use to power this thing.

My idea consists of adding a small wireless dongle and an lcd to an embedded device, and then running a daemon on the device, it will wait for a client to connect and send text, which will be displayed at the speed that the user picks. I will build an android app to open PDFs/epubs/whatever, select the text, and then transmit the data and WPM setting to the daemon, via wireless connection.

I think it's kinda neat, but I've had some retarded ideas before, any suggestions or thoughts?