2020-12-12

Bought this from the Pi Shop for £25.

https://thepihut.com/products/inky-phat

This might be useful in battery-powered equipment, to show data like when a battery was last fitted, and how much estimated battery life is left. This will remain on the screen even after a battery has died. There are situations where a dead battery can result in a dead user!

The box has a link to http://pimoroni.com/inkyphat, which links to installation instructions at https://learn.pimoroni.com/tutorial/sandyj/getting-started-with-inky-phat

The software can be installed by the command line

curl https://get.pimoroni.com/inkyphat | bash

This collects the script from the web url and pipes it to the bash command.

It is a very long script, and several times reported:
"Some packages could not be installed, review the output for details!"

I ran the demos anyway, seemed to work fine.

Total installation time very short, mostly installation script working.

Key points:

• The display is almost as big as the PCB, so take care how you push it onto the header.
• The demo font is awful, this is not a bug