{"id":14125,"date":"2016-02-05T20:50:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T19:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14125"},"modified":"2016-02-05T20:50:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T19:50:31","slug":"papirus-e-ink-display-for-the-raspberry-pi-a-couple-of-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14125","title":{"rendered":"PaPiRus e-ink display for the Raspberry Pi &#8211; a couple of reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Apologies for the lack of blog posts this week. There are reasons, most of which are too boring to get into! Anyway&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ksr-ugc.imgix.net\/assets\/003\/796\/731\/c9cc5ccb463e835d3d70eba580d0be84_original.png?resize=560%2C519&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"519\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The PaPiRus e-paper HAT for the Raspberry Pi was a pretty successful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/pisupply\/papirus-the-epaper-screen-hat-for-your-raspberry-p\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter<\/a>, raising over \u00a336k. The screen comes\u00a0in three sizes and you can now get the product from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pi-supply.com\/product\/papirus-epaper-eink-screen-hat-for-raspberry-pi\/?v=79cba1185463\" target=\"_blank\">Pi Supply website from \u00a330 up to \u00a365<\/a>. Well, shipping of the Kickstarter pledges has now happened and, therefore, people are starting to get hold of them.<\/p>\n<p>Both <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.scargill.net\/papirus-eink-display-for-raspberry-pi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Scargill<\/a> and the writer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makerspace-uk.co.uk\/papirus-epaper-hat\/\" target=\"_blank\">Makerspace<\/a> have written about their experiences with the board.\u00a0To summarise: the quality of the board is good but the documentation is lacking and the software needs a\u00a0<em>lot<\/em> of work. Currently, people are having to follow <a href=\"http:\/\/frederickvandenbosch.be\/?p=1483\" target=\"_blank\">these instructions from Frederick Vandenbosch\u00a0<\/a>to have any joy with it. Judging by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/pisupply\/papirus-the-epaper-screen-hat-for-your-raspberry-p\/comments\" target=\"_blank\">comments on the Kickstarter<\/a>, everyone is having the same problem so hopefully mentioning Frederick&#8217;s work here will point people in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>Without being hyper-critical (with all the negative comments on the Kickstarter, it doesn&#8217;t need me to add to it) let me just say this: There&#8217;s no point in having a beautiful product if the software is no good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for the lack of blog posts this week. There are reasons, most of which are too boring to get into! Anyway&#8230; The PaPiRus e-paper HAT for the Raspberry Pi was a pretty successful Kickstarter, raising over \u00a336k. The screen&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14125\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,20,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crowdfunding","category-gpio-boards","category-software"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PaPiRus e-ink display for the Raspberry Pi - a couple of reviews - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14125\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PaPiRus e-ink display for the Raspberry Pi - a couple of reviews - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Apologies for the lack of blog posts this week. 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