E ink

The instructions below are for this eink display 3.7 inch (480 x240 pixels).

Want to know more about how eink works? watch this

With your Pi turned off, plug in the screen so it completely covers the Raspberry Pi. You will damage the screen if you plug it in the opposite direction.

Download the sample code and necessary libraries using these Terminal commands

$ cd ~
$ cd Documents
$ git clone https://github.com/waveshare/e-Paper.git

Try the example eink_test.py in your code folder.

Then try this example eink_image.py that will pull a jpg image (that you already have in your examples folder) and diplay it in two orientations.

Challenges:

Look at this test code from the company. Can you pull out some commands and create your own image?

If you've already been using the Small LCD Hat, you'll need to do the following to get this screen to work:

In the pi terminal type:

sudo nano /boot/config.txt

Scroll down until you see these lines and comment them out.

3. press control X to exit and press Y to save the file.

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