Hi. Today I'd like to introduce my EPD project. The
EPD is electronic paper display. It is used to e-book reader. The
representative products are Amazon Kindle and SONY e-book reader.
The
EPD has any interesting characteristics. It looks like printed paper and the
image has shown if the power is cut off.
I want to display the information (for examples
the weather forecast, the figure of atmospheric pressure change and so on) what
it get from on the internet. Now project status is that the EPD displayed image
was read from SD Card.(But it has any problems yet.)
The following figure is shown a block diagram
for that.
There are 5 blocks.
1. ED050SC3 Electric Paper Display
I choose ED050SC3(LF) from any kind of EPDs.
It is 5 inch EPD. It resolution is 800 x 600 pixels. It used to SONY PRS-300,
Rakuten kobo mini as the e-book reader products.
The almost kind of EPD has a specially connector. It is difficult to get and expensive. But ED050SC3(LF) has FFC/FPC
connector. It is not specially connector. I could get the connector easily.
2. ESP-WROOM-02(ESP8266) Development board
The ESP8266 is cheapest Wifi microcontroller.
I choose ESP-WROOM-02 Developer Board from any kind of ESP8266 modules. Because ESP-WROOM-02 is the only passed
the TELEC( like a Japanese FCC).If you use at out of japan, you choose NodeMCU better.
The function is the same.
3. DCDC Power Convertor
The ED050SC3(LF) needs many kind of voltage
power sources. +22V, +15V, -20V, -15V, +3.3V and -2V. These are converted from +5V USB
bus power by DCDC convertor. These are also needed power on sequence and a
small scheme for -2V.
4. 16bit Shift Register
The ED050SC3(LF) needs at least 6 lines for
control signals and 8 lines for data transfer. ESP8266 has a few GPIO pins. So they
pins ware extended by two 74HC595 shift register ICs tied to SPI. But 74HC595
made some problems. I will tell you details later.
5. SD Card
The images data for display are stored to SD card.I choose micro SD card. Because it was
small.
Next time I will share about EPD.
Thanks reading.
Contents of the EPD project
- The project outline ( you are here )
- The ED050SC3 EPD
- The ESP8266( ESP-WROOM-02)
- The Power block
- The 16bit shift register
- The SD card and serial RAM
You can buy the EPD experiment kit at our shop.
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