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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 ive seen python work quickly on the eink display is with smaller less intensive displays

Competitiveness


At 1bit 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 epaper weather display


Here is a list of source code in order of most responsive to least on a pi w0bcm2835 by far the fastest source code to use like...  Read More

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    great, black, bad, fragile and quick.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has determined that the review content quality is high and informative.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 139 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 31 2023.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    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


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    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


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I did this by taping it to a wooden clipboard giving it a rigid surface to be flat against


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The fact that this screen runs at 3


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Full screen refresh appears to take around 5 seconds so it isnt the fastest out there


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It is also worth noting that they strongly suggest that you dont leave the display powered up at all times


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    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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