There's a new ePaper screen in town, and it's a biggie! Inky Frame 7.3" features a super crisp E Ink display with 800 x 480 pixels of six colour goodness. We've added 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 storing photos of fond maritime adventures (or whatever floats your boat).

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.

Here are some things we reckon this mahoosive Inky would be great for:

An ultra readable, low power consumption home automation dashboard

Displaying stylised photos, pop art images or favourite comic panels.

Showing cute graphs and readouts from local or wirelessly connected sensors

Displaying fascinating data from online APIs.

What's new?

A new generation of ePaper is coming! Inky Frames manufactured after August 2025 will use a new Spectra 6 E Ink® display panel which brings a number of improvements over the panels that we’ve used previously - notably a shorter refresh time and more saturated colours.

Pico 2 W x E Ink®

Multi-colour EPD displays use ingenious electrophoresis to pull coloured particles up and down on the display. The coloured particles reflect light, unlike most display types, meaning that they're easily visible under bright lights.

E-paper is also ultra low power. It only consumes power whilst refreshing and the images on the display stick around for a really long time whilst the display is unpowered. This means these displays are perfect for powering from battery!

This display takes around 20-25 seconds to refresh so works best in projects that don't require constant screen updates.

Features

• Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W Aboard
• Dual Arm Cortex M33 running at up to 150MHz with 520KB of SRAM
• 4MB of QSPI flash supporting XiP
• Powered and programmable by USB micro-B
• 2.4GHz wireless
• 7.3" EPD display (800 x 480 pixels)
• E Ink Spectra 6® technology
• Colours: 6 (red, green, blue, yellow, black, white)
• Dot pitch:  0.20 x 0.20mm
• Aspect ratio: 5:3
• Ultra wide viewing angles
• Ultra low power consumption
• 5 x tactile buttons with LED indicators
• Two Qw/ST connectors for attaching breakouts
• microSD card slot *
• 8MB PSRAM
• Dedicated RTC chip (PCF85063A) for deep sleep / wake **
• Fully assembled
• No soldering required.
• Programmable with C/C++ or MicroPython

Inky Frame Only includes

• Inky Frame 7.3" (with Pico 2 W Aboard)
• 2 x metal legs

Inky Frame + Accessory Kit includes

• Inky Frame 7.3" (with Pico 2 W Aboard)
• 2 x metal legs
• 3 x AA battery pack
• 3 x AA batteries
• USB micro B cable
• Velcro square for attaching battery pack
• 32GB microSD card

Getting Started

To make it easy to get started, Inky Frame ships pre-loaded with pirate brand MicroPython and some fun examples that use the wireless capabilities of the Pico 2 W to display interesting things.

To enable Inky Frame to connect to the internet, you'll need to save a file called secrets.py to the Pico 2 W using Thonny. It should contain the following lines:

WIFI_SSID = "your_ssid_goes_here"
WIFI_PASSWORD = "your_password_goes_here"


To return to the launcher, hold down buttons A and E and tap reset.