7 Color E-Ink Display

This is a review of the Inky Impression by Pimoroni. This is a 7 color 5.7" e-ink display for use with a Raspberry Pi.
Inky Impression 5.7": shop.pimoroni.com/products/in...
Inky GitHub Repository: github.com/pimoroni/inky

[@jandobrik5831]

That is best yellow hue i have ever seen on eink display

[@KlausRosenberg-et2xv]

E-ink is so fascinating!

[@Sum_Wun]

I came over from TikTok. Love seeing longer content from you.

[@rwardtech]

Thank you so much!

[@doctorweile]

Nice review, but I'm also quite interested in, how well the display performs, when it comes to partial updates.

[@conor_schall]

This thing is so cool! I've recently been obsessed with e-ink displays and really want to get one of these to use with my pi zero w to make either a weather dashboard or an automatically updating photo frame. Do you have any recommendations for python education?

[@jasongreenwood3260]

How is this display at updating if it was being used as a time sensitive info board? Like, time, temp, stocks, eBay auction monitor? If it's running a direct program vs trying to display a picture would it update faster? I think that's probably the only downside to this display. Thank you for the review though!

[@Emoryz]

How did you get it to display the weather?

[@Andy_B.]

Hi,
any idea what e-ink display would be fast enough to use it as a 2nd monitor / for writing text?
Thanks.

[@patakk8145]

did you have to preprocess the superheroes image (set it to idnexed color, 7 color palette), or does the library do that for you?

[@vicclear]

Can this be used for a Computer to display the actual desktop, to work with?

[@hallmt]

Could I use this as a daily calendar?

[@unknow03]

If u would just display white and black, would the refresh rate be much better?

[@djazz0]

No, speed is constant

[@jasonbailey9139]

Is it really pi more-own-ee or is it pi more-own-eye where the two words rhyme?

[@Ross_an_Artisan]

Cost 60 Pounds. If thats what you are looing for.
But looks really cool

[@andrewness]

What's the difference between when you do something and when you "go ahead and" do the thing?

[@lornova79]

I don't like this display. The very low update time makes it unsuitable for any real time use case, and therefore the four buttons are almost useless. You could update it nightly to have a new "image of he day" on it, but having a full Linux system powered on all day just for that task is a waste, the version with the Raspberry Pi Pico is a more sensible choice.

[@doc8125]

I could see it being cool as a programmable imagine frame, like you load an image to it then unplug it and leave it be for a while, and when you want another picture you just plug it in and change the picture. Other digital image frames require either batteries or to be plugged in, so this is a nice option

[@danielbocelli]

If they had a battery on a static image frame with this display, it would last a really long time. That would be cool. @@doc8125