A Pico W powered E Ink®photo frame/home dashboard/life organiser with a glorious seven-colour display and wireless connectivity.
Inky Frame features our nicest, biggest, seven-colour E Ink display(which can also be found onInky Impression 5.7"), with loads of space for displaying images, text, graphs or interfaces. There are five buttons with LED indicatorsfor interacting with the display, two Qw/ST connectorsfor plugging in breakouts and amicro SD card slotfor all-important storage of cat photos. Oh, and a Raspberry Pi Pico W is pre-soldered onboard!
Every Inky Frame comes with a pair of sleek littlemetal legsso you can stand it up on your desk (and a selection of mounting holes if you'd prefer to do something else). There's also abattery connector so you can power it without annoying trailing wires, and someneato power saving features that mean you can run it from batteries for ages.
Available as the frame only or with an accessory kit which includes metal legs, batteries, a battery pack, USB cable, velcro and a 16GB MicroSD card! Select your required option before adding to cart!
Organise Everything!
We've designed Inky Frame with organisation in mind, here are some things we reckon it would be really great for:
Checking your calendar and upcoming appointments at a glance!
Attaching to your office door to display your availability
Displaying motivational posters, quotes, or images (fungible or otherwise)
Showing readouts from other wirelessly connected environmental boards (like our new Enviro range?)
Pico W x E Ink®
Multi-colour EPD displays use ingenious electrophoresis to pull coloured particles up and down on the display. The coloured particles reflect light, unlike most display types, meaning that they're visible under bright lights. It takes approximately 30 seconds to refresh the display, so they work best in projects that don't need constant refreshing.
E-paper is also ultra-low power (EPD displays only consume power while they're refreshing), and the images on the display stick around for a really long time whilst the display is unpowered.
Features
Raspberry Pi Pico W Aboard
Dual Arm Cortex M0+ running at up to 133Mhz with 264kB of SRAM
2MB of QSPI flash supporting XiP
Powered and programmable by USB micro-B
2.4GHz wireless
5.7" EPD display (600 x 448 pixels)
E Ink Gallery Palette™ 4000 ePaper
ACeP (Advanced Color ePaper) 7-color with black, white, red, green, blue, yellow, orange.
Ultra wide viewing angle – >170°
Dot pitch – 0.1915 x 0.1915mm
5 x tactile buttons with LED indicators
Two Qw/ST connectors for attaching breakouts
microSD card slot *
Dedicated RTC chip (PCF85063A) for deep sleep / wake **
Our C++/MicroPython libraries are packed with nifty software tweaks to get the most out of this screen. You'll get the best performance using C++, but if you're a beginner we'd recommend using our batteries-included MicroPython build for ease of getting started.
The Qw/ST connectors on Inky Frame make it super easy to connect up QwiicorSTEMMA QT breakouts. If your breakout has a QW/ST connector on board, you can plug it straight in with aJST-SH to JST-SH cable.
List of breakoutscurrently compatible with our C++/MicroPython build.
Notes
Measurements: 131.4 x 127.5 mm (L x W)
* Amicro SD cardcan be added to cache data downloaded overwifi or for logging information prior to uploading via wireless. It can also beused to preload assets for your user interface. Certain tasks (like decoding a jpeg or downloading a file) require an SD cardto be present as they need a large working space and wouldn't be able to fitentirely in RAM.
We've found Pico-flavoured C++/MicroPython is quite fussy about SD cards so if yours doesn't work, try another or formatting using FAT. The cards in the Accessory Kit, or our32GB or 64GB NOOBScards will work fine.
** Inky Frame's onboard RTC (Real Time Clock) means it can be put into asuper deep sleep modethat only draws about 20uA of power. Inky Frame canturn off the power that drives the Pico W and the display completely. It can be woken back up bythe RTC , the front buttons or the external trigger on the extension header. You can also read the RTC to keep track of the time and date, of course!
On the expansion header is anexternal trigger input. if this is transitioned fromlow to high then Inky Frame will wake up from deep sleep. This lets you add your own wake button or circuit or build Inky Frame into a more complicated system. The external trigger is 3.3V max.
About Pico W Aboard
Our new Pico W Aboard products come with abuilt-in Raspberry Pi Pico W. This means you get all the advantages of anRP2040 microcontroller- a speedy fast dual-core ARM processor, a dynamic, growing ecosystem and a choice of different programming methods to experiment with. Most excitingly though, Pico W has wireless connectivity, so your Pico/RP2040 devices can communicate with each other, and the internet!
Wireless is very new to Pico/RP2040 - be aware that things will move fast and change! Software support (wireless examples, tutorials, CircuitPython support etc) will take a little while to catch up. If you're an absolute beginner to Pico/RP2040, you might have a better experience with wireless if you wait until everything is a little more settled.
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