Pimoroni Inky Frame 7.3" - Pico 2 W Aboard - PIM737
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Description
The Pimoroni Inky Frame 7.3" (Pico 2 W Aboard) is an extra-large Pico 2 W powered E Ink / e-paper photo frame / home dashboard / life organizer with glorious seven color display and wireless connectivity.
There's a new ePaper screen in town, and it's a biggie! Inky Frame 7.3" features a super crisp E Ink display with 800 x 480 pixels of seven-color goodness. The team at Pimoroni added five buttons with LED indicators for interacting with the display, two Qw/ST connectors for plugging in breakouts, and a micro SD card slot for storing photos of fond maritime adventures (or whatever floats your boat).
Every Inky Frame comes with sleek little metal legs so you can stand it up on your desk (and a selection of mounting holes if you'd prefer to do something else). There's also a battery connector to power it without annoying trailing wires and some neato power saving features that mean you can run it from batteries for ages.
This Inky Frame is "Pico 2 W Aboard" that means an integrated RP2350 board already placed! Pico 2 W and it's souped-up RP2350 chip bring some exciting improvements to Inky Frame - including a higher core clock speed, double the on-chip SRAM and double the on-board flash memory. The RAM upgrade in particular should help a bunch when working with this big display and with making requests from online APIs.
Here are some things Pimoroni reckon this mahoosive Inky would be great for:
- 💡 An ultra readable, low power consumption home automation dashboard
- 🖼️ Displaying stylized photos, pop art images, or favorite comic panels.
- 📊 Showing cute graphs and readouts from local or wirelessly connected sensors
- 👀 Displaying fascinating data from online APIs.
Pico 2 W x E Ink
Multi-colour EPD displays use ingenious electrophoresis to pull coloured particles up and down on the display. The coloured particles reflect light, unlike most display types, meaning that they're easily visible under bright lights.
E-paper is also ultra-low power. It only consumes power whilst refreshing and the images on the display stick around for a really long time whilst the display is unpowered. This means these displays are perfect for powering from battery!
⚠ It takes approximately 40 seconds to refresh this display, so it will work best in projects that don't need constant refreshing.
Technical Details
Getting Started
To make it easy to get started, Inky Frame ships pre-loaded with pirate brand MicroPython and some fun examples that use the wireless capabilities of the Pico 2 W to display interesting things.
To enable Inky Frame to connect to the internet, you'll need to save a file called secrets.py to the Pico 2 W using Thonny. It should contain the following lines:
WIFI_SSID = "your_ssid_goes_here"
WIFI_PASSWORD = "your_password_goes_here"
To return to the launcher, hold down buttons A and E and tap reset.
You can find more examples on Github:
Features
- Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W Aboard
- Dual Arm Cortex M33 running at up to 150MHz with 520KB of SRAM
- 4MB of QSPI flash supporting XiP
- Powered and programmable by USB micro-B
- 2.4GHz wireless
- 7.3" EPD display (800 x 480 pixels)
- E Ink Gallery Palette® ePaper
- ACeP (Advanced Color ePaper) 7-color with black, white, red, green, blue, yellow, orange.
- Ultra wide viewing angles
- Ultra low power consumption
- Dot pitch – 0.2 x 0.2mm
- 5 x tactile buttons with LED indicators
- Two Qw/ST connectors for attaching breakouts
- microSD card slot *
- 8MB PSRAM
- Dedicated RTC chip (PCF85063A) for deep sleep / wake **
- Fully assembled
- No soldering required.
- Programmable with C/C++ or MicroPython
For product support, replacement parts, and warranty for Pimoroni products, visit the Pimoroni forum or contact Pimoroni directly.
