“Great display. But note that you probably should install Pimoroni's uf2 file. I found that it would take me a very long time to develop any useful low-level software otherwise. But do note 2 important things, 1) You do not get access to most of the pico's pins. There are 2 connectors, I use the one with the serial /uart connections (I have a second pico that runs the actual programs and uses the Display Pack as an intelligent display with a serial input). Also 2), I highly recommend using a Pico 2 (or Pico W 2) because it has twice the ram of the original Pico. I found that when using the hi-res mode, there's was only about 40k available with a Pico (1), but in my case with a Pico 2 there is 445k available! (the Pico 1 has 264 kB ram and the Pico 2 has 520 kB).”
“Lovely little device.
I also bought a Pico2-wh and a bme690 breakout.
By the end of the evening, just using the example codes on github I had the screen displaying temperature, humidity, pressure and "gas".
The ease of use far surpassed my expectations.”
“Does all it says it will. Colour and greyscale is clear. Screen is very sharp (my photos might not be).
The Pimoroni library is straightforward.
It leaves a handful of GPIO unused so the Pico can do more than just the display and the bulit-in buttons (in my case control a couple of heater elements). The Qw/ST port makes hooking up other breakouts a doddle (in my case two MCP9601 thermocouple amplifiers).
One gotcha - the screen protector had a red stripe - I thought screen was faulty (and reported it as such) until Pimoroni friendly support put me right!”
