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Pros & Cons
Pros
The included ribbon and spi interface board is amazing and makes things basically plug-and-play. This is in the maker space, so it isn't a generic thing you can plug in to any old computer. This screen supports true partial drawing/ refreshing, which ... Read More
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Quality
I build a vsmp (very slow movie player) and this is the display, works great!
Shipping
Still quick, but not nearly as quick as the bcm2835 based source code.
Packaging/appearance
The only time i've seen python work quickly on the e-ink display is with smaller, less intensive displays.
Competitiveness
At 1-bit color depth (black and white) with a 800x480 display resolution, you can print a fair amount of content on them.
Hooked this up to a raspberry pi as an e-paper weather display.
Here is a list of source code in order of most responsive to least on a pi w0:bcm2835: by far the fastest source code to use, l... Read More
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Due to amazons stance on linking to external sites this review cant post actual useful information like the technical spec but i will try my best
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From my perspective the hardest part of using this product is literally wiring it to the microcontroller correctly after that it is just sending it commands and data
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I did this by taping it to a wooden clipboard giving it a rigid surface to be flat against
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The fact that this screen runs at 3
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Full screen refresh appears to take around 5 seconds so it isnt the fastest out there
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It is also worth noting that they strongly suggest that you dont leave the display powered up at all times
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The main loop flow diagram they have shows powering on initializing the settings drawing the content to the screen and then power off followed by deep sleeping the display
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