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Badger

Aim: make an awesome e-ink badge to wear at conferences & meetups

Hardware:

• I'm using the BADGEr board initially developed for Open Hardware Summit 2013. It can be purchased on seeed for $50.
• The BADGEr doesn't have an USB port, I had to use serial instead. I used the SparkFun FTDI Basic 5V breakout to connect.
  • Make sure to install the FTDI drivers first.
  • Supposedly, Apple drivers have to be uninstalled first on Yosemite, however I did not have this problem.

Software:

• e-reader library for Arduino
  • The libraries don't seem to be compatible with Arduino 1.5 - Use version 1.0.6 of the IDE instead.
• When uploading code, make sure to set the board as Arduino Pro or Pro Mini (3.3V, 8MHz) w/ Atmega328

References

• This guy set up his BADGEr as a weather station with a Raspberry Pi. Slightly more detailed instructions that WyoLum, useful to begin.
• WyoLum Ereader library - some documentation about the EPD library on GitHub
• WIF - the WyoLum image format description (sort of)
• Pillow tutorial - Python image library, useful for manipulating images to create WIF files.
• Pervasive Displays 2.7'' panel datasheet

Other e-ink prototyping resources

• Make Deck Vanessa for use on the Electric Imp platform
• RePaper - development platform run by Pervasive Displays.