DESCRIPTION
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E-paper – the ultimate low power display solution! Add a 2.7″ graphic display to your project that doesn’t need any power to stay on, with this fully bi-stable E-paper display you only need to supply power when updating the display.
The display has an SPI interface and some extra control signals. The display module connects to a standard 14-pos expansion connector.
Revision D now includes a 26 pin Raspberry Pi connector, LM75 I2C temperature sensor and a 32Mbit SPI-NOR Flash chip!
FEATURES
- Based on display EM027BS13
- a-Si, active matrix TFT, Electronic Paper Display (EPD) panel
- No of pixels: 264×176
- High resolution – 117 dpi (0.217 x 0.217mm pixels)
- Ultra low power consumption – due to its bi-stable nature, the EPD panel requires very little power to update the display and needs no power to maintain an image
- Very wide viewing angle – near 180
RESOURCES
- RePaper GitHub – Libraries and Examples
- E-paper Display Module – Rev C (improved version with possibility for separate SSEL signals for SPI FLASH and display)
- Technical details about how to interface the display can be found on the RePaper site
- Datasheet of the EM027B13
- COG Driver Interface Timing
- Embedded Artists’ general RoHS 2 declaration
- 14 pos Serial Expansion Connector Specification
Revision D Development board user guides and demo code:
- Raspberry Pi:
- GitHub repository
- MicroPython Device Driver courtesy of Peter Hinch
- mbed:
- mbed library: EM027BS013 library
- Example application: app_epaper_EM027BS013
- Arduino:
- Instructions: GitHub repository (Tested with Arduino Leonardo and Uno)
Revision C Development board user guides and demo code:
- Raspberry Pi:
- Epaper_RaspberryPi.pdf
- epaper_pi_130307.tar.gz
- mbed:
- Epaper_mbed.pdf
- epaper_mbed_130411.zip
- Arduino: (Note – Does not currently work with Rev D)
- Epaper_arduino.pdf
- epaper_arduino_130412.zip
- Modified E-Paper code (supports partial updates)
Software:
- Sample Software Disclaimer
- Demo: Shows how to interface the software display driver.
- Project Files: The sample applications contain project files for the free LPCXpresso IDE/Debugger and for Code Red’s Red Suite