Sheffield-based Pimoroni has introduced a brand new entry in its Inky household of ePaper shows, the Inky Body 7.3″ — powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W and that includes an E Ink Spectra shade panel.
“There is a new ePaper display on the town, and it is a biggie,” the corporate boasts of its newest creation. “Inky Body 7.3″ incorporates a tremendous crisp E Ink show with 800×480 pixels of six shade goodness. We have added 5 buttons with LED indicators for interacting with the show, two Qw/ST connectors for plugging in breakouts and a microSD Card slot for storing images of fond maritime adventures (or no matter floats your boat).”
Pimoroni has launched a brand new entry within the Inky household, the six-color Inky Body 7.3″. (📷: Pimoroni)
Pimoroni’s Inky household of good shows are all based mostly round electrophoretic panels — a know-how that bodily strikes layers of “ink” and which requires energy solely when altering states. Generally present in eBook readers, electrophoretic ePaper panels ship a crisp paper-like viewing expertise with a really low energy draw at the price of a gradual refresh charge and the necessity for exterior lighting to be seen.
The brand new mannequin is predicated on E Ink’s Spectra 6 know-how, utilizing a six-color electrophoretic panel with a 7.3″ diagonal at a 5:3 facet ratio and a 20–25 second refresh interval. It is linked to a module-mounted Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W improvement board, that includes the corporate’s RP2350 microcontroller — which means the selection of any two from a pair of Arm Cortex-M33 or free and open-source Hazard3 RISC-V cores working at as much as 150MHz, 520kB of static RAM, and 4MB of quad-SPI flash with execute-in-place assist, plus single-band Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radios. There’s an extra 8MB of pseudo-static RAM (PSRAM) for larger initiatives, a real-time clock (RTC) chip, and a microSD Card slot for picture storage.
The brand new Inky Body 7.3″ is accessible on the Pimoroni retailer, with the corporate’s in-house MicroPython variant pre-installed together with a handful of instance packages; the body and desktop-stand legs alone are priced at $99.75, with a bundle including a 3× AA battery pack and batteries, USB micro-B cable, and 32GB microSD Card obtainable at $110.72.
