Hands-on tutorial on making an electronic ink screen calendar

Everyone should be familiar with ink screens. In order to restore the reading experience of paper books and protect your eyes, many reading products support ink screens, such as Kindle, WeChat reading, etc.

Recently, Xiaomi Youpin Mall has launched a calendar with an electronic ink screen:

Isn’t it very interesting? An experienced engineer briefly evaluated it. This thing is not difficult. He made a poisonous chicken soup electronic ink screen calendar himself.

Let’s take a look at the finished product first:

To be honest, this finished product looks no worse than the calendar from Xiaomi Youpin Mall.

We can also roughly see from the finished product that the production of the electronic ink screen calendar is divided into two parts, hardware and software.

Hardware mainly includes screens, computing units, power supplies, etc. Software mainly includes development frameworks, development tools, used class libraries, and some basic services.

In such electronic products, the screen may be the largest piece of hardware cost. The screen used here is a screen based on the SPI interface of WeiXue with a resolution of 648*480.

Follow the public account: "Black Technology Zhibei", reply in the dialog box: 20210104, and receive detailed tutorials and related codes.

Simply replace the Key of your Zephyr Weather API in the source code, then burn the program into the development board, use hot melt glue and other tools to fix it to the frame, and connect the power supply . A poisonous chicken soup electronic ink screen calendar is completed.

It is strongly recommended that interested students try to DIY a calendar of their own.