Tutorial

Preparation

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Raspberry Pi ×1

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Raspberry Pi e-ink Display Module ×1

Steps

1. Plug the e-ink display into Raspberry Pi, and enabe the SPI interface of the

Raspberry Pi.

2. Install DFR_RPi_Display library.

To make the e-ink display work properly, we have to install function library. Click to

download DFRobot_RPi_Display library. The library provides the driving program of e-

ink display and sample code. The library only supports Python at present. We will

provide more libraries under users' requirement later.

3. Download the freetype library.

Make sure that your Raspberry Pi is connected to network before downloading. Open

the Raspberry Pi terminal and input the following command to download the library.

python -m pip install freetype-py

4. Run the example program

Enter the examples files under decompress path, and run the example program.

cd DFRobot_RPi_Display/examples/dfrobot_epaper

python xxx.py

There are 5 example programs in the file: demo_bitmap, demographics,

demo_multi_lingual and so on. Replace the xxx with the name of the example program

when running the command.

Examples

1. Example program to dispaly image: demo_bitmap.py