Universal E-Ink Raw Panel Driver Board Onboard SoC ESP32 WiFi/Bluetooth Wireless Designed for Various Waveshare SPI e-Paper Raw Panels
F**8
It is exactly what you see, but a little worse...
The things I liked about it:Plugged it on to a PI and it just WORKS! (provided you have the libaries preinstalled)It uses 3.3v, so you can theoretically have a fairly low power pi powered badge with this!Color part works well!Things I don't like about it:Not compatible with the Pimoroni library (expected for a competing product, also if you read the docs)Provided python library sucks and needs to be fixed to use all functions.No fast refresh, no library provided way of updating part of a screenNo library provided way to update just one color (drastically reducing the 14 second refresh rate)Adjusting "brightness" or voltage to the LCD isn't that simple, however that's more of my own issue than the deviceHard to beat it for the price! It does work, and the supported library, while extremely basic and pretty terrible, it is possible to make it do what you want!Edit 7/15/18: Quality control must be pretty bad on these things (I guess you can't complain about cheap stuff ffrom china).I'm into day 3 of using this thing and I've already developed a grey horizontal line on the display :( Will be returning it, trying to get a new one.
P**E
Read The Specs! (8 second refresh)
The device is nice and small and well put together. It comes with the cable and you can easily plug into your PI. The website has clear instructions and makes it easy to get the thing working.As per the headline - read the spec! Know that you're going to get ~8 seconds of flashing and inverted images before the end result is achieved.You can mess with the examples, but it would be good to see a utility that would "display image". The images are built based on two 200x200 BW BMP files - one for Black and one for Red. So, the good news is that you get to mess with the python or c examples in order to make your own "display image" utility.
P**L
Board works great
Here are the pins you'll need to reference with the GxEPD2 library:CS 15DC 27RST 26BUSY 25void initDisplay() { display.init(115200); SPI.end(); SPI.begin(13, 12, 14, 15);}
J**E
Lotta fun
Easily to set up and great for Pi projects.
G**I
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Alles Top, jederzeit wieder Danke!!!
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