Pimoroni Inky pHAT - 4 Color eInk Display

A low-energy, high-falutin, E Ink® display for your Raspberry Pi. Now available in a four-color version (red / yellow / black / white).

Inky pHAT's beautiful, high contrast display is ideal for displaying simple graphics and crisply-rendered text and, because it's like paper, it's readable in bright sunlight. You could use an Inky pHAT as a cute little clock, displaying tweets, the weather, news headlines, sports scores, and more. It's also ideal for graphing data from remote sensors, CPU load, or temperature, or stock prices.

The Getting Started with Inky pHAT tutorial is a great starting point for getting acquainted with the joys of e-paper!

Now in glorious four-color 

Advances in e-paper technology mean we can now use a fancy new four-color display on Inky pHAT. You no longer need to choose between yellow and red; you can have both!

Features

• 2.13" EPD display (250x122 pixels)
• Inky pHAT pinout
• Compatible with all 40-pin header Raspberry Pi models
• Python library
• Comes fully assembled

Multi-color EPD displays, like those on the Inky pHAT, use ingenious electrophoresis to pull coloured particles up and down the display. The colored particles reflect light, unlike most display types, making them visible under bright light. It takes approximately 20 seconds to refresh the display, with a typical 8mA current draw during refreshes. The black/white display can be refreshed much more quickly, in just a second or two.

Note that you cannot overlay/mix pixels: each point can be one of the four colors but you can't like mix the red and yellow to make a orange. Instead, check out our guide on dithering!

Everything comes fully assembled, and there's no soldering required! The display is securely stuck down to the Inky pHAT PCB and connected via a ribbon cable. Just pop Inky pHAT on your Pi and run our installer to get everything set up!

It'll work with any 40-pin Pi, including Pi Zero and Pi Zero W.