Product description
Inky Frame 4.0" features a vibrant E Ink display with 640 x 400 pixels of tightly packed seven colour goodness. There's five buttons with LED indicators for interacting with the display, two Qw/ST connectors for plugging in breakouts and a micro SD card slot for storage of capybara photos or other vital files.
Every Inky Frame comes with a pair of sleek little metal legs so you can stand it up on your desk (and a selection of mounting holes if you'd prefer to do something else). There's also a battery connector so you can power it without annoying trailing wires, and some neato power saving features that mean you can run it from batteries for ages.
Here are some things we reckon this petite Inky would be great for:
An ultra readable, low power consumption home automation dashboard
Displaying stylised photos, pop art images or favourite comic panels.
Showing cute graphs and readouts from local or wirelessly connected sensors
Displaying fascinating data from online APIs.
Multi-colour EPD displays use ingenious electrophoresis to pull coloured particles up and down on the display. The coloured particles reflect light, unlike most display types, meaning that they're visible under bright lights. It takes approximately 30 seconds to refresh the display, so they work best in projects that don't need constant refreshing.
E-paper is also ultra low power (EPD displays only consume power while they're refreshing), and the images on the display stick around for a really long time whilst the display is unpowered.
Features
Raspberry Pi Pico W Aboard
Dual Arm Cortex M0+ running at up to 133Mhz with 264kB of SRAM
2MB of QSPI flash supporting XiP
Powered and programmable by USB micro-B
2.4GHz wireless
4.01" EPD display (640 x 400 pixels)
E Ink Gallery Palette 4000 ePaper
ACeP (Advanced Color ePaper) 7-color with black, white, red, green, blue, yellow, orange.
Ultra wide viewing angles
Ultra low power consumption
Dot pitch - 0.135 x 0.135mm
5 x tactile buttons with LED indicators
Two Qw/ST connectors for attaching breakouts
microSD card slot *
Dedicated RTC chip (PCF85063A) for deep sleep / wake **
Fully assembled (no soldering required)
C/C++ and MicroPython libraries
Schematic (coming soon)
Every Inky Frame comes with a pair of sleek little metal legs so you can stand it up on your desk (and a selection of mounting holes if you'd prefer to do something else). There's also a battery connector so you can power it without annoying trailing wires, and some neato power saving features that mean you can run it from batteries for ages.
Here are some things we reckon this petite Inky would be great for:
An ultra readable, low power consumption home automation dashboard
Displaying stylised photos, pop art images or favourite comic panels.
Showing cute graphs and readouts from local or wirelessly connected sensors
Displaying fascinating data from online APIs.
Multi-colour EPD displays use ingenious electrophoresis to pull coloured particles up and down on the display. The coloured particles reflect light, unlike most display types, meaning that they're visible under bright lights. It takes approximately 30 seconds to refresh the display, so they work best in projects that don't need constant refreshing.
E-paper is also ultra low power (EPD displays only consume power while they're refreshing), and the images on the display stick around for a really long time whilst the display is unpowered.
Features
Raspberry Pi Pico W Aboard
Dual Arm Cortex M0+ running at up to 133Mhz with 264kB of SRAM
2MB of QSPI flash supporting XiP
Powered and programmable by USB micro-B
2.4GHz wireless
4.01" EPD display (640 x 400 pixels)
E Ink Gallery Palette 4000 ePaper
ACeP (Advanced Color ePaper) 7-color with black, white, red, green, blue, yellow, orange.
Ultra wide viewing angles
Ultra low power consumption
Dot pitch - 0.135 x 0.135mm
5 x tactile buttons with LED indicators
Two Qw/ST connectors for attaching breakouts
microSD card slot *
Dedicated RTC chip (PCF85063A) for deep sleep / wake **
Fully assembled (no soldering required)
C/C++ and MicroPython libraries
Schematic (coming soon)
