Inky Impression is our range of Raspberry Pi compatible, super crisp, low power E Ink® displays. They come in a range of sizes to meet the needs of your projects.
Right now we have 25% off the range. If you've been holding off from building your first / next E-Paper powered project, then there is no better time to grab one!
Save 25% on Inky Impression and our range of E Ink® and E-Paper products.
E Ink® displays have come a long way from being simple low density and monochrome screens. Inky Impression shows colours by using electrophoresis to pull charged particles towards the surface of the display. The coloured particles reflect light, unlike most display types, meaning that they're visible under bright light. They don’t use a backlight like LCDs do, so they’re easy on the eyes and don’t introduce unwanted light into your environment. E Ink® displays also consume much less power than a traditional screen, enabling them to be used in locations without a reliable power source.
Inky Impression comes in a range of sizes. From the petite but useful 4 inch model to the behemoth 13.3 inch (1600 x 1200 pixels) version which is almost A4-sized!
We've also taken 25% off Badger 2350, our E-paper based Badgeware board. With a crisp 2.7 inch E-Paper display, sporting four-level greyscale, and the power of Raspberry Pi's RP2350 and onboard Wi-Fi. Just like all of our Badgeware boards, this is more than just a badge! It can be a weather station, a digital pet, public transport tracker or get live news updates direct from the Internet.
Inky Frame, Inky wHAT and Inky pHAT
Our range of InkywHAT and InkypHAT boards for the Raspberry Pi also see a 25% discount. As do Inky Frame, which features an onboard Raspberry Pi Pico W. We've also got discounts on Adafruit's MagTag ESP32-S2 based Wi-Fi display and their quad-colour E-Paper display. If you need E-Ink / E-Paper accessories, then we have 25% off those too!
These Three Inky Impression Projects Caught Our Eye!
We've scoured the Internet and these three projects have all embraced the range of Inky Impression displays that we have on offer. Each project has found new and interesting ways to use a low power E-Ink display.
"One of these pictures is not like the others."
Based around a 13.3-inch Inky Impression, and a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, Jamie Kitson's "PiFrame" wireless E Ink® digital photo frame project blends into a plethora of treasured family memories. Kitson's project is built into an Ikea picture frame, and blends the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W with an Arduino Pro Mini clone board. The Pi is there to store and update the images shown on the 13-inch (1600 x 1200 pixels) Inky Impression. The Arduino clone board, in conjunction with a DS3231 real time clock is there to turn the power on and off every 24 hours. Kitson wanted to keep the project wireless and this requires a LiPo battery and the necessary circuitry to make it all work.
Kitson has an exceptionally detailed GitHub repository for this project, breaking down the components, code and decisions which created the final project. You should head over there and delve into this awesome project.
Watch a Movie, Really Slowly
Sometimes a movie seems as though it will never finish, and with Ryan Lane's project, every movie will drag on and on, but in a good way! The snappily named "epaper-movie-frame" will play a video, one frame at a time, at an interval of your choosing.
Based around Inky Impression 7.3 and a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, Lane's project is written in Python and has a web interface where you can upload videos, adjust the update interval, toggle playback (useful for managing which videos you want to play) and a live preview of the frame
Everything is wrapped up in an 8 x 10 inch photo frame, along with a custom matboard (mount) to make it look clean. Lane's project was inspired by Bryan Boyer's Very Slow Movie Player and Tom Whitwell's version.
This Project Is Out of This World
The night sky is beautiful. On a clear night you can see stars, planets and our solitary neighbour, the moon.
Marcel-Jan Krijgsman's Inky Star Map project is beautiful way to enjoy the sky from the comfort of your office / living room / radio telescope. The project is based around the 13.3-inch Inky Impression and the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and Krijgsman has helpfully packaged the project into a .deb file which can be easily installed.
Using the project is relatively simple, just run the inkystarmap command and pass the latitude, longitude and your direction, then the code gets to work, showing the constellations and stellar phenomenon in the heavens above. A more complicated way of running the code, involving Python, can create a service and timer that will update the screen every hour. This will give you new stars, nebula and planets to discover as we orbit the immense ball of plasma generated by nuclear fusion (better known as our Sun, Sol) at 67,000MPH!
Inspired by these projects? Grab your own Inky Impression!