2.13 inch E-Ink display HAT for Raspberry Pi, three-color

Note: This 2.13-inch E-Ink display HAT is updated from V2 to V3 from October 2020 onwards.

E-Ink (Electronic Ink) display has several benefits compared to other display technologies:

• High Visibility and Contrast
• Wide viewing angle
• and super low power consumption. It can retain the display for very long time after power is removed.

This is an E-Ink display HAT for Raspberry Pi, 2.13inch, 212×104 resolution, with an embedded controller, communicating via SPI interface, supports red, black, and white three-color display. Due to the advantages like ultra-low power consumption, wide viewing angle, clear display without electricity, it is an ideal choice for applications such as shelf labels, industrial instruments, and so on.

Interface:

Dimensions:

Features

• No backlight, keeps displaying last content for a long time even when power down
• Ultra-low power consumption, basically power is only required for refreshing
• Compatible with Raspberry Pi Zero/Zero W/Zero WH/3B/3B+/3A+/4B
• Preserved solder pads for SPI interface, for connecting with other controller boards like Arduino, etc
• Onboard voltage translator, compatible with 3.3V/5V MCUs
• Comes with development resources and manual (examples for Raspberry Pi/Arduino/STM32)
• Stack perfectly on Raspberry Pi Zero board and of course a little smaller than Raspberry Pi 3B/3B+.

Specifications:

• Operating voltage: 3.3V/5V
• Interface: 3-wire SPI, 4-wire SPI
• Outline dimension: 65mm × 30.2mm
• Display size: 23.71mm × 48.55mm
• Dot pitch: 0.229 × 0.228
• Resolution: 212 × 104
• Display color: red, black, white
• Grey level: 2
• Full refresh time: 15s
• Refresh power: 26.4mW(typ.)
• Standby power: 170°

Packing List

• 1 x 2.13inch E-Ink display HAT(3 colors) board
• 1 x 8-way JST plug to pigtail jumper wire (female terminated)
• 2 x 8mm spacer (2.00mm diameter) with screws and nuts

Resources

• Make new larger font for SPI e-Paper
• Schematic
• 2.13-inch e-paper datasheet
• Libraries for Raspberry Pi
• Wiki page