inky-pal/README.md

Inky Pal!

This is an e-ink status display that I set up during Maryanne Wachter and Sara Bobo's NGW workshop about e-ink displays!

Some ideas

I kinda want to have a line-art illustration on one side of my display (or maybe as a background?) with calendar information and some oblique strategies or self-care tips.

Here are some public domain animal illustrations I found, which might look OK on an e-ink screen:

• https://pixnio.com/art/line-art-illustration-pictures/illustration-line-art-black-and-white-drawing-of-sandhill-crane
• https://wpclipart.com/animals/birds/B/Bluebird/Bluebird_BW.png.html
• https://thegraphicsfairy.com/public-domain-rooster-image/
• https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=159727&picture=elephant-african-clipart
• https://thegraphicsfairy.com/vintage-animal-clip-art-fox-drawings/

Or I could just dither some art?

• https://api.artic.edu/docs/#iiif-image-api

Docs

• https://github.com/pimoroni/inky

Other Setup Notes

You need to enable the SPI interface on the Pi. Raspbian provies raspi-config from which you can select "Interface options" then "SPI".