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Inky Impression Weather Station


Pimoroni’s Inky Impression is a 5.7-inch 7 colour e-ink screen. As it is an e-ink screen, it is very low power. It is also capable of maintaining an image without power. It connects to any 40-pin Raspberry Pi microcomputer. I have used it with a Pi Zero, Pi 3A, Pi 3B + and a Pi 4.

You can use dithering to get comic book-like colour graphics, and using the 4 buttons on the back – you can change what is displayed without a keyboard or mouse!

However, what I am currently using mine for, is a 7-day weather forecast display taking data from Open Weather as shown below. IMG20210622184025-scaled

If you want to use your Inky Impression like this, just visit my GitHub link below and follow the instructions on the page.

GitHub.com / Vwillcox

Credit

The icons are provided by Erik Flowers.

The font is from David Jonathan Ross.

Original code by Rainer Bunger