2.13" 250x122 Quad-Color eInk / ePaper - Bare Display

by Adafruit

What's better than a tri-color E-Paper display? Quad-color, of course! This is a 2.13" 250x122 Quad-Color eInk / ePaper Bare Display. 

E-Ink/E-Paper displays make for great low-power displays that are daylight visible and keep their image even when depowered.

Chances are you've seen one of those new-fangled 'e-readers' like the Kindle or Nook. They have gigantic electronic paper 'static' displays - that means the image stays on the display even when power is completely disconnected. The image is also high contrast and very daylight readable. It really does look just like printed paper!

Please note: this is the bare display element plus an adapter cable. You need to plug it into a board with a 'standard' 24-pin FPC e-paper connector. We recommend checking out and picking up a matching driver board:

This is a 2.13" quad-color (red, black, yellow and white) display. It has 250x122 black, red and yellow ink pixels and a white-ish background. It uses the JD79661 chipset, so make sure whatever firmware code you are planning to use has support for it. The Arduino library we wrote does all the work for you, you can just interface with it as if it were an Adafruit_GFX compatible display.

Note that you cannot overlay/mix pixels: each point can be one of the four colors, but you can't, like, mix the red and yellow to make an orange. Instead, check out our guide on dithering!

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RoHS 2 2011 65 EU Compliant RoHS 2 2015 863 EU Compliant

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