Inkplate 6COLOR: Versatile and Easy-to-use Wi-Fi Enabled 5.8-inch e-Paper Color Display

Published  February 7, 2022   1
L Lakshita
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Inkplate 6Color: e-Paper Color Display

Continuing the glory of inkplate series, crowd supply has launched a new board Inkplate 6COLOR includes a 5.8-inch display offering users a resolution of 600 x 448 pixels with 7 colors directly available in the form of Black, White, Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, and Orange. Designed with simplicity in mind, it addresses all of the challenges that e-paper brings with it.

These Inkplate boards contain all of the bits and pieces you need to get started, including a Wi-Fi microcontroller, microSD slot, extra input/output pins, Real Time Clock (RTC), Li-ion battery charger, and more. As for the screen, Inkplate 6COLOR has a slower refresh time compared to other Inkplate boards, but it compensates for that with a beautiful multicolor screen.

Key Features

  • A 5.8-inch, 600 x 448-pixel color e-paper display, with an active area of 114.9 mm x 85.8 mm
  • Seven colors directly available (Black, White, Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, Orange)
  • SPI communication
  • Dithering algorithms built into the Arduino library, so you can show any color using the seven existing colors
  • 128 DPI (Dots Per Inch)
  • the manufacturer datasheet specifies a 25 second refresh time, but our real-life observed refresh time is 10-11 seconds

Other features include dithering algorithms built into Arduino library, so you can show any color using 7 existing ones. Moreover, an on-board ESP32 microcontroller with integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 (BLE), extremely low-energy, battery- or USB-powered operation (including a 25 µA sleep state) that wrings days, weeks, or months out of a single charge, MicroSD card reader from which Inkplate 6PLUS can pull images to display, Real Time Clock onboard and additional GPIO pins.

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