5.65inch e-Paper Module (F)

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5.65inch e-Paper Module (F)
5.65inch-e-Paper-Module-F-2.jpg

880x528, 7.5inch E-Ink raw panel without driver board
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Introduction

This is an 5.65inch colorful e-Paper display module, 600x448 resolution, supports ACeP (Advanced Color Paper) sveen-color.

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Interfaces

VCC 3.3V
GND GND
DIN SPI MOSI
CLK SPI SCK
CS SPI chip select (Low active)
DC Data/Command control pin (High for data, and low for command)
RST External reset pin (Low for reset)
BUSY Busy state output pin (Low for busy)

SPI timing


This product is an E-paper device adopting the image display technology of Microencapsulated Electrophoretic Display, MED. The initial approach is to create tiny spheres, in which the charged color pigments are suspending in the transparent oil and would move depending on the electronic charge. The E-paper screen display patterns by reflecting the ambient light, so it has no background light requirement. Under sunshine, the E-paper screen still has high visibility with a wide viewing angle of 180 degrees. It is the ideal choice for E-reading.

Communication protocol

1.54inch-e-paper-manual-1.png

Note: Different from the traditional SPI protocol, the data line from the slave to the master is hidden since the device only has display requirement.

  • CS is the slave chip select. When CS is low, the chip is enabled.
  • DC is data/command control pin, when DC = 0, write command, when DC = 1, write data.
  • SCLK is the SPI communication clock.
  • SDIN is the data line from the master to the slave in SPI communication.

SPI communication has data transfer timing, which is combined with CPHA and CPOL.

  1. CPOL determines the level of the serial synchronous clock at idle state. When CPOL = 0, the level is Low. However, CPOL has little effect to the transmission.
  2. CPHA determines data is collected at the first clock edge or at the second clock edge of the serial synchronous clock; when CPHL = 0, data is collected at the first clock edge.
  • There are 4 SPI communication modes. SPI0 is commonly used, in which CPHL = 0, CPOL = 0.

As you can see from the figure above, data transmission starts at the first falling edge of SCLK, and 8 bits of data are transferred in one clock cycle. In here, SPI0 is in used, and data is transferred by bits, MSB first.

Color of e-Paper

An image is made of pixels. The sizes of every pixel defined who may color are supported by the e-Paper. Monochrome image use one bit for one pixel (0 and 1, black and white), in this case, if we want to display more colors, we should use more bits for every pixel.
You can refer to the Make BMP file for e-Paper" guide and make the image yourself for this module.
We need at least 3bits to display severe color. For easy programming, we and an 0 bit in front of it. In this case, we use 4 bits for every pixel.

Color BIN HEX The color (reference)
Black 0b0000 0x0
White 0b0001 0x1
Green 0b0010 0x2
Blue 0b0011 0x3
Red 0b0100 0x4
Yellow 0b0101 0x5
Orange 0b0110 0x6

For example, if you want to display four colors, green, yellow, red and orange, it should be like as below:

Pixel 1 2 3 4
Bit 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Data 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0
Color

Data is saved in MSB formate and 1byte is equal to 8 bits.

Pixel 1 2 3 4
Bit 7 6 5 4 3 3 1 0 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
Data 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0
Color
Byte 0x25 0x46

We provide several examples for testing, you first test the e-Paper by following the guides. If your developing board is different, you need to write your codes yourself by following the resources.

Working With Raspberry Pi

Provide BCM2835, WiringPi, file IO, RPI (Python) library demos.

Hardware connection

When connecting the Raspberry Pi, if the driver board has a 40pin header, you can directly plug it into the 40PIN header of the Raspberry Pi, and pay attention to the pins. If you choose to connect with an 8PIN cable, please refer to the pin correspondence table below
For the 1.02inch e-paper Module, the pin header is used, and the wiring needs to be connected according to the following table

Correspondence between connecting pins of Raspberry Pi
e-Paper Raspberry Pi
BCM2835 encoding Board physical pin number
VCC 3.3V 3.3V
GND GND GND
DIN MOSI 19
CLK SCLK 23
CS CE0 24
DC 25 22
RST 17 11
BUSY 24 18

Take the 7.5inch HD e-Paper (B) connected to the e-paper Driver HAT as an example, just plug it directly into the Raspberry Pi:
7.5inch e-Paper(B)800-480 1.jpg

Enable SPI Interface

  • Open the Raspberry Pi terminal and enter the following command in the config interface:
sudo raspi-config
Choose Interfacing Options -> SPI -> Yes Enable SPI interface

RPI open spi.png
Then reboot your Raspberry Pi:

sudo reboot
  • Check /boot/config.txt, and you can see 'dtparam=spi=on' was written in.

Raspberry Pi Guides for 4.37 e-Paper.jpg

  • To make sure SPI is not occupied, it is recommended to close other drivers' coverage. You can use ls /dev/spi* to check whether SPI is occupied. If the terminal outputs /dev/spidev0.1 and /dev/spidev0.1, SPI is not occupied.

Raspberry Pi Guides for 4.37 e-Paper02.jpg

Install Library

Install BCM2835

#Open the Raspberry Pi terminal and run the following command
wget http://www.airspayce.com/mikem/bcm2835/bcm2835-1.71.tar.gz
tar zxvf bcm2835-1.71.tar.gz
cd bcm2835-1.71/
sudo ./configure && sudo make && sudo make check && sudo make install
# For more information, please refer to the official website: http://www.airspayce.com/mikem/bcm2835/
  • Install WiringPi
#Open the Raspberry Pi terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt-get install wiringpi
#For Raspberry Pi systems after May 2019 (Earlier than the previous can not be implemented), an upgrade may be required to:
wget https://project-downloads.drogon.net/wiringpi-latest.deb
sudo dpkg -i wiringpi-latest.deb
gpio -v
#Running gpio -v will bring up version 2.52, if it doesn't, it means there was an installation error.

#The Bullseye branch system uses the following command:
git clone https://github.com/WiringPi/WiringPi
cd WiringPi
./build
gpio -v
# Run gpio -v and version 2.60 will appear, if it does not appear, it means there is an installation error
  • Download program (already downloaded can be skipped):
sudo apt-get install p7zip-full
wget  https://files.waveshare.com/upload/3/39/E-Paper_code.7z
7z x E-Paper_code.7z -O./e-Paper
cd e-Paper/RaspberryPi_JetsonNano/
  • Downloading the program via GitHub (alternate method, you can skip it if you've already downloaded it).

Access to GitHub is not very smooth at the moment, so we recommend downloading from our website using the method above.

git clone https://github.com/waveshare/e-Paper.git
cd e-Paper/RaspberryPi_JetsonNano/

Compile the program (Note: -j4 is compiled using 4 threads, the number can be modified; EPD=epd1in02d is to specify a macro definition, epd1in02d corresponds to the test program in the main function).

# At this point in the e-Paper/RaspberryPi_JetsonNano 
cd c
sudo make clean
sudo make -j4 EPD=epd1in02d
  • Run the demo:
sudo ./epd

Run Python Library

  • Install Python Library:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
sudo apt-get install python3-pil
sudo apt-get install python3-numpy
sudo pip3 install RPi.GPIO
sudo pip3 install spidev
  • Install the function library (Python2)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo apt-get install python-pil
sudo apt-get install python-numpy
sudo pip install RPi.GPIO
sudo pip install spidev
  • Download the program: (already downloaded can be skipped):
sudo apt-get install p7zip-full
wget  https://files.waveshare.com/upload/3/39/E-Paper_code.7z
7z x E-Paper_code.7z -O./e-Paper
cd e-Paper/RaspberryPi_JetsonNano/
  • Downloading the program via GitHub (alternate method, you can skip it if you've already downloaded it).

Access to GitHub is not very smooth at the moment, so we recommend downloading from our website using the method above.

git clone https://github.com/waveshare/e-Paper.git
cd e-Paper/RaspberryPi_JetsonNano/
  • Run the program:
# Make sure in the e-Paper/RaspberryPi_JetsonNano/ 
cd python/examples/
python3 epd_1in02_test.py

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