First Look at Pimoroni's Inky Impression

A look at Pimoroni's new Inky Impression - 5.7" 7-colour E Ink Raspberry Pi Hat. Looking at how to getting an image onto it using Pimoroni's Inky software library
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○ Inky Software Library: github.com/pimoroni/inky
○ Inky Pi Hats: shop.pimoroni.com/search?q=inky
○ E Ink Software Library: github.com/Ineltek-UK/eink-xp...
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○ GitHub: github.com/george-sephton/

[@MattTester]

First video I've seen on this display, very impressive. I have a spare Pi Zero W here so I reckon I'll get one and make a digital picture frame, the fact that I can just have it cycle through images I upload to my web space is superb. Thanks for the guide to using it.

[@S4l4m4nder36]

Haha, 03:16 "[..]Some packages could not be installed, review the app ... cool, we're done!" same style here :D Great video btw. thank you.

[@timwoodburn5895]

Thanks for this, I would've missed the .html part if it wasnt for your video.

[@seanmc3528]

Great video! Quick question...do you need to dither the images before adding or can you skip that step and just experiment?

[@GSephElec]

No the python script does all the dithering for you which is cool. Just use Image.open (www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-pil-image-open-method/) and the inky.set image function does the rest.

[@nhuergop]

What a cool channel!

[@ranyaroblox4324]

Would be great

[@samperidavide5628]

is it possible to show a web page in this E Ink display? I need to show a Web page that contains only text.

[@GSephElec]

yeah, have a look at 12:55 in the video, I show a webpage being rendered onto the display

[@TomLeg]

The inky is 600 x 448, so using that resolution for your image would be even better. Of course, the point of the pop art image is to ignore the fact that the display does 7 colours.

[@lovemadeinjapan]

How is a display like this after say 10000 updates and a year of use?

[@yourstudio]

has anyone discovered any projects using this worth sharing ? im experimenting now but having some errors in displaying my images ... anyway too lazy to type specifics but thank you for this video this was a great starting tutorial

[@busterdafydd3096]

6:19..... "run it in python3"... obviously not heard of shebangs... you didn't need to use "python3 image.py ....".... you could of just done "./image.py ..."