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Add some bi-stability to your life with an Adafruit EInk Breakout Friend - your fun pal who's happy to lend a hand when you want to work with EInk/E-Paper displays. Luckily for us, just about every small-medium size EInk display made these days has a standard 24-pin connection. This breakout will add all the power supply support circuitry and level shifting so you can attach your favorite display (up to tri-color 4.2") and wire it up to your favorite development board. Using our CircuitPython or Arduino libraries, you can create a 'frame buffer' with what pixels you want to have activated and then write that out to the display. Most simple breakouts leave it at that. But...just about all EInk displays are write-only and many only let you update the full display (not partial update). That means you have to buffer the full image you want to display, taking up precious RAM. The Eink Friend is much friendlier - it comes with 256 Kilobit (32 Kilobyte) SRAM chip. That means you can control up to a 4.2" 300x400 tri-color display (300*400 * 2 colors / 8 bits-per-byte = 30KB). This chip shares the SPI port the eInk display uses, so you only need one extra pin. And, no more frame-buffering! You can use the SRAM to set up whatever you want to display, then shuffle data from SRAM to eInk when you're ready. The library we wrote does all the work for you, you can just interface with it as if it were an Adafruit_GFX compatible display. If you prefer not to use the chip, our libraries will automatically use the microcontroller/microcomputer internal RAM. For ultra-low power usages, the onboard 3.3V regulator has the Enable pin brought out so you can shut down the power to the SRAM and display. By default the RESE resistor is set to 0.5 ohms, which is the most common value, but by cutting/soldering the bottom solder jumper you can set the resistor to 3 ohms.

Adafruit 4224 eInk Breakout Friend with 32KB SRAM

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the 2.13 inch monochrome e-ink display breakout you can see here this is a really gorgeous display it's nice and high resolution so you're going to see it's going to do its little refresh there it kind of inverts the screen does black does white and then it displays it what i wanted to do is actually set this up as sort of a page a day calendar i'm going to run a little python script it's now updated it with today's day and date and that's grabbing it from my computer which is what that python script does and so every hour both my python script and the circuit python script running on this little microcontroller will go and check essentially the computer will check and see hey what's today's date day and date and then it's going to send that over serial on the usb over to the itsy bitsy m4 circuit python software there is waiting for input and when it grabs that input it then displays i