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 A small program to allow mirroring of a terminal on an e-paper screen in light weight cpp code.
 Originally inspired by [jouko's PaperTTY](https://github.com/joukos/PaperTTY/tree/main). If you prefer python and want a more flexible system, definitely check it out
 
+## Building
+To build this you'll need to install
+- sdl2
+- catch2 (this should automatically be installed by cmake)
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