2.13-inch Flexible E-Paper Display
By Andrew Gregory. Posted
This monochrome e-ink display (£18 / $25) is designed for use with Raspberry Pi Pico. As the name suggests, the ultra-thin screen is flexible, so it could well prove especially useful if you want to attach it to a curved surface. Be careful not to bend and damage the short FPC ribbon cable, though.
The latter connects to a little adapter with a longer, regular ribbon cable going to the main driver board – into whose twin female headers you plug your Pico. A nice touch is that the underside breaks out all of Pico’s pins and is also fully labelled.
The flexible e-ink display itself is near identical to that on the 2.13-inch HAT, with a 250 × 122 resolution and just two levels of greyscale. So it’s a basic black and white screen for showing data or simple graphics. A full screen refresh takes only around 2 seconds; a partial one, 0.3. Larger sizes of the display are also available.
Verdict
Your flexible friend if you need a thin, bendy screen!
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