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by Taylen
Mon Apr 26, 2021 4:43 pm
Forum: ESP32 boards
Topic: Eink Photo Display Problems
Replies: 4
Views: 1876

Re: Eink Photo Display Problems

Thanks for the explanation! That makes it a lot clearer and hopefully will let me get this working.
by Taylen
Mon Apr 26, 2021 1:42 am
Forum: ESP32 boards
Topic: Eink Photo Display Problems
Replies: 4
Views: 1876

Re: Eink Photo Display Problems

Thanks, I hadn't seen or thought of being able to load it piecemeal. What I'm trying to do is display a black and white image on an eink display. Everything I've read uses a bitmap cropped to the right size, then displayed loading the bitmap into a bytearray and frame buffer. I was under the impress...
by Taylen
Sat Apr 24, 2021 7:58 pm
Forum: ESP32 boards
Topic: Eink Photo Display Problems
Replies: 4
Views: 1876

Eink Photo Display Problems

I'm extremely new to micropython but have been working on a project for a little bit to make a eink picture frame that can be driven with a battery powered esp32 running micropython. On the hardware side everything seems good, got the sd card setup and working and I have a 800x480 7.5" Waveshare epa...
by Taylen
Fri Apr 16, 2021 6:34 pm
Forum: ESP32 boards
Topic: waveshare eInk display is stuck powering on with BUSY pin on high
Replies: 5
Views: 4118

Re: waveshare eInk display is stuck powering on with BUSY pin on high

Well, here's some good news! Someone already rewrote the driver for the V2 update! Turns out that when I'm looking for something new I should look in the PR section first....would've saved me a few days of going in circles https://github.com/mcauser/micropython-waveshare-epaper/pull/12 Just tried it...
by Taylen
Fri Apr 16, 2021 4:43 pm
Forum: ESP32 boards
Topic: waveshare eInk display is stuck powering on with BUSY pin on high
Replies: 5
Views: 4118

Re: waveshare eInk display is stuck powering on with BUSY pin on high

I just started using micropython too, specifically for a project involving the Waveshare 7.5 v2 display. And I also ran into the fun fact that there hasn't been a driver ported for it yet. After banging my head against the wall with it for a couple days I finally plugged it into a pi I had laying ar...