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Inside reMarkable 2 — chapter 3: the hardware | reMarkable

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This is the third chapter in our Inside reMarkable 2 series, documenting the creation of reMarkable 2, the world’s thinnest tablet. During the development of reMarkable 2, chief design officer Mats Herding kept a very interesting spreadsheet. In it, Herding documented the thinness of every component slated for the device in millimeters, down to four decimal places. “Just a flex cable for example,” he says. “We had to know it would be 0.6745 millimeters thin.” “Once we had a rough list of all the components, we had to go through and start seeing where we could make things thinner.” A thinner device was important for a number of reasons. A thinner paper tablet can easily fit in your bag, and it’s more comfortable to write on given the reduction in distance between the edge of the screen and where you rest your arm. The thinner they could make reMarkable 2, the more like paper it would be. The problem, as Herding explains, was that they couldn’t just stack a bunch of thin components atop

Inside reMarkable Inside reMarkable 2 — chapter 3: the hardware This is the third chapter in our Inside reMarkable 2 series, documenting the creation of reMarkable 2, the world’s thinnest tablet. Sep 18, 2020 11 min read Between the sheets During the development of reMarkable 2, chief design officer Mats Herding kept a very interesting spreadsheet. In it, Herding documented the thinness of every component slated for the device in millimeters, down to four decimal places. “Just a flex cable for example,” he says. “We had to know it would be 0.6745 millimeters thin.” “Once we had a rough list of

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