Inky Frame 5.7" (Pico W Aboard)
by Pimoroni
A large Pico W powered E Ink® photo frame / home dashboard / life organiser with glorious seven colour display and wireless connectivity.
Inky Frame 5.7” features a big seven colour E Ink display (which can also be found on Inky Impression 5.7”), with loads of space for displaying images, text, graphs or interfaces. There’s 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 all-important storage of cat photos.
Every Inky Frame comes with a pair of 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 so you can power it without annoying trailing wires, and some neato power saving features that mean you can run it from batteries for ages.
We’ve designed Inky Frame with organisation in mind, here are some things we reckon it would be really great for:
- Checking your calendar and upcoming appointments at a glance!
- Attaching to your office door to display your availability
- Displaying motivational posters, quotes, or images (fungible or otherwise)
- Showing cute graphs and readouts from local or wirelessly connected sensors.
Features
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Raspberry Pi Pico W Aboard
- Dual Arm Cortex M0+ running at up to 133Mhz with 264kB of SRAM
- 2MB of QSPI flash supporting XiP
- Powered and programmable by USB micro-B
- 2.4GHz wireless
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5.7” EPD display (600 x 448 pixels)
- E Ink Gallery Palette™ 4000 ePaper
- ACeP (Advanced Color ePaper) 7-color with black, white, red, green, blue, yellow, orange.
- Ultra wide viewing angle – >170°
- Dot pitch – 0.1915 x 0.1915mm
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5 x tactile buttons with LED indicators
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Two Qw/ST connectors for attaching breakouts
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microSD card slot *
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Dedicated RTC chip (PCF85063A) for deep sleep / wake **
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Fully assembled
- No soldering required.
About Pico W Aboard
Our new Pico W Aboard products come with a built in Raspberry Pi Pico W. This means you get all the advantages of a RP2040 microcontroller - a speedy fast dual-core ARM processor, a dynamic, growing ecosystem and a choice of different programming methods to experiment with. Most excitingly though, Pico W has wireless connectivity, so your Pico/RP2040 devices can communicate with each other, and the internet
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CircuitPython 9.2.1
This is the latest stable release of CircuitPython that will work with the Inky Frame 5.7" (Pico W Aboard).
Use this release if you are new to CircuitPython.
Built-in modules available: _asyncio, _bleio, _eve, _pixelmap, adafruit_bus_device, adafruit_pixelbuf, aesio, alarm, analogbufio, analogio, array, atexit, audiobusio, audiocore, audiomixer, audiomp3, audiopwmio, binascii, bitbangio, bitmapfilter, bitmaptools, bitops, board, builtins, builtins.pow3, busdisplay, busio, busio.SPI, busio.UART, codeop, collections, countio, cyw43, digitalio, displayio, epaperdisplay, errno, floppyio, fontio, fourwire, framebufferio, getpass, gifio, hashlib, i2cdisplaybus, i2ctarget, imagecapture, io, ipaddress, jpegio, json, keypad, keypad.KeyMatrix, keypad.Keys, keypad.ShiftRegisterKeys, keypad_demux, keypad_demux.DemuxKeyMatrix, locale, math, mdns, memorymap, microcontroller, msgpack, neopixel_write, nvm, onewireio, os, os.getenv, paralleldisplaybus, pulseio, pwmio, qrio, rainbowio, random, re, rgbmatrix, rotaryio, rp2pio, rtc, sdcardio, select, sharpdisplay, socketpool, ssl, storage, struct, supervisor, synthio, sys, terminalio, time, touchio, traceback, ulab, usb_cdc, usb_hid, usb_midi, usb_video, vectorio, warnings, watchdog, wifi, zlib
Included frozen(?) modules: adafruit_register, adafruit_sdcard, pcf85063a
Features: Bluetooth/BTLE, Display, STEMMA QT/QWIIC, Wi-Fi
Absolute Newest
Every time we commit new code to CircuitPython we automatically build binaries for each board and language. The binaries are stored on Amazon S3, organized by board, and then by language. These releases are even newer than the development release listed above. Try them if you want the absolute latest and are feeling daring or want to see if a problem has been fixed.
Previous Versions of CircuitPython
All previous releases of CircuitPython are available for download from Amazon S3 through the button below. For very old releases, look in the OLD/ folder for each board. Release notes for each release are available at GitHub button below.
Older releases are useful for testing if you something appears to be broken in a newer release but used to work, or if you have older code that depends on features only available in an older release. Otherwise we recommend using the latest stable release.