With all the pieces in place to allow me to draw to the e-ink screen, I made some 8-bit RAW images and wrote values to the display. It worked, but it looked a bit crusty, not least because the Framebuffer.text method for putting text onto the screen is a fixed size, and a fixed font. …
After connecting the e-ink display to the Pico and managing to get it to display in landscape mode I felt I’d solved the unknowns in making this e-ink weather display. Now it was time to decide what I was going to show, and how I was going to show it. One Python example I’d found …
By default, sending pixels from a Raspberry Pico to a Waveshare e-ink display will result in a portrait image. In the case of the 2.13inch display I started with, this means a screen of 122 pixels wide by 250 pixels high. But what if you want to display in portrait mode? As someone who’s used …
I’d gotten as far as running a few lines of code on the Pico, so the next thing was to work out if I could display anything at all on the e-ink display. Since I’d already messed up by buying the wrong HAT type, I still had a small doubt about whether I would get …
The whole Raspberry Pi craze has passed me by before. Mainly because I have no competency whatsoever in electronics, and when it comes to using it just as a small computer I’ve had no need for one. I don’t really know what drew me to the Raspberry Pi Pico, but it just looked like such …