Get a low - energy, high - quality electronic paper (ePaper / eInk / EPD) display for your Raspberry Pi! It comes in three cool color schemes: red/black/white, yellow/black/white, and black/white. The Inky pHAT has a 212x104 pixel display, perfect for showing simple graphics and sharp text. It's as easy to read in bright sunlight as a real piece of paper. Use it as a cute clock, display tweets, weather, news, sports scores, or graph data from sensors, CPU load, temperature, or stock prices. As of early December 2017, it uses a new display and requires updated software. But don't worry, the new software can detect the display version and works with both old and new displays. Also, when using the new color displays, add 'inkyphat.set_colour('red')' below 'import inkyphat' in your code (replace'red' with 'yellow' or 'black' according to your display color). Features include a 2.13' EPD display, a specific pinout, compatibility with various Raspberry Pi models, a Python library, and it's fully assembled. Multi - color EPD displays use a smart electrophoresis method. They reflect light, making them visible in bright light. It takes about 15 seconds to refresh the multi - color display and just 1 - 2 seconds for the black/white one. Everything is pre - assembled, no soldering needed. Just attach it to your Pi and run the installer. It works with any 40 - pin Pi model. Our Python library makes it easy to show text and images, and we have a one - line installer. Note that our software doesn't support Raspbian Wheezy. Overall dimensions are 65x30x8.5mm, and the display usable area is 48.5x23.8mm with a 2.13' diagonal.
Using the Inky pHAT is super easy. First, just pop it onto your Raspberry Pi. Then run our installer to set everything up. You can use it for many things like showing the time as a cute clock, displaying tweets, weather, news, or sports scores. You can also graph data from sensors, CPU load, temperature, or stock prices. When it comes to the software, if you're using a new color display, remember to add 'inkyphat.set_colour('red')' below 'import inkyphat' in your code and change'red' to 'yellow' or 'black' based on your display color. Note that our software doesn't work with Raspbian Wheezy. As for maintenance, there isn't much to do. It's fully assembled, so no soldering is required. Just make sure it's properly attached to your Pi. The multi - color display takes about 15 seconds to refresh, while the black/white one is much quicker, only 1 - 2 seconds. Keep it in a normal environment, and it should work well for you.
