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I've had good experiences with a 10" eInk dev kit from Pervasive Displays, purchased from DigiKey. Looks like it's out of stock right now, but they've got a 7.4
by pcl 10y ago
I've had good experiences with a 10" eInk dev kit from Pervasive Displays, purchased from DigiKey. Looks like it's out of stock right now, but they've got a 7.4" and a 4.4" form factor in stock:
https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/pervasive-displays/S2A20CS171/S2A20CS171-ND/5400956 https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/pervasive-displays...
https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/pervasive-displays/SW074AS182/SW074AS182-ND/4898789 https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/pervasive-displays...
https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/pervasive-displays/ST044AS182/ST044AS182-ND/4898786 https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/pervasive-displays...
- DenisM 10y agoHow do you program this? Is it easy to get started with?
- pcl 10y agoAt the low level, it's pretty straightforward to work with their dev kits. A Raspberry Pi + some jumper cables + a bit of python gets things going. There are some quirks, since for the most part the board is optimized for internal update speed, not for usability. I ended up putting together some code to update the display given a PNG file, including some basic dithering for greyscale. And I drive all that from screenshots of a browser running in a virtual X terminal on the RPi. The update speed is not the best (several seconds from screenshot to render), but that's fine for my use case, since I'm using it for slow-moving info (weather, bus schedule, tides, etc.) and I'm better at writing HTML+JS for UI than writing bitmaps.