“I bought it from Japan, but it arrived in a very careful package.
I was impressed that it could display seven colors on electronic paper, so I bought it, and it lived up to my expectations. It is very colorful and has a retro photo-like impression, which I am enjoying.
Recommended for IoT such as photo frames and infrequently updated calendars!
It is easy to connect to the Raspberry pi, and you can get it working right away.
However, if you use screws other than those included to secure it to the spacer, be careful of the length. This is because it will shatter and destroy the glass display (I'm telling you, but I've experienced it...)”
“Awesome product with superb quality. I really enjoyed building something creative with the ePaper HAT. And since the hardware as well es the open source library are basically plug and play, I could focus on the creative part. 10/10 fully recommend this HAT.”
“This eInk display is gorgeous and the tool supplied to program it using Python3 is phenomenal. With very little python experience I was able to get it up and running quite quickly (setting up the Raspberry PI was harder) and use it as an electronic picture frame.
After about a year the display began to exhibit vertical streaks even after cleaning. I contacted Pimoroni technical support and they immediately sent me a replacement display saying it was a non-repairable fault. Amazing customer service and very satisfied.”
“I must say I'm very happy how my images appear on this 7 colour display. Even if I don't dither the images beforehand. I've used my Inky Impression to display my cycling statistics from Strava and I'm really happy how this turned out. It would be great if there would ever be a larger version of this. I could do all kinds of things with it.”
“Quite an impressive little display, though the saturation is less than you might think - if you imagine everything's going to be painted by Georges Seurat you're pretty much there.
Pretty simple to use with the python library, and it's very easy to fit.
Knocked a star off because of the lack of saturation, updates make the entire screen flash many different colours, and the fact it takes ~40-45 seconds to update from an rPi0. It's completely fine for geek in-home usage, but it lacks a bit of polish if you're looking for a one-stop info screen.
What I'd really like to see on the next version is (much quicker) partial screen updates, a quicker overall update time and slightly bolder colours.”
