Embedded and hobbyist {hardware} specialist LILYGO has launched a brand new mannequin in its rising vary of Espressif ESP32-powered ePaper good show methods — this time providing an all-in-one smartphone-like design with built-in MagSafe-compatible wi-fi charging: the T5 E-Paper S3 Professional.
The most recent in a string of ePaper gadgets from LILYGO, through which the LCD or OLED panels historically discovered on compact all-in-one improvement boards are changed by an electrophoretic show that attracts power solely when altering states and is absolutely readable in direct daylight, the T5 E-Paper S3 Professional is clearly impressed by smartphone expertise — although with a display screen measured at simply 4.7″ diagonal its dimensions are a throwback to a time of far more pocketable telephones.
LILYGO’s newest good ePaper show is a compact smartphone-like gadget with Wi-Fi, BLE, and LoRa radios. (📷: LILYGO)
That 4.7″ show, delivered to our consideration by Linux Gizmos, makes use of ePaper expertise to point out 16 ranges of gray at a 960×540 decision, or round 234 pixels per inch (PPI). Missing the a number of layers of colour ePaper shows, the panel’s refresh price must be affordable — although LILYGO hasn’t supplied any efficiency figures — and the show features a capacitive touchscreen layer good for 2 simultaneous factors of contact.
Behind the show is an Espressif ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 module, which incorporates the ESP32-S3 Synthetic Intelligence of Issues (AIoT) wi-fi system-on-chip with its twin 32-bit Tensilica Xtensa LX7 cores working at as much as 240MHz and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth 5 Low Power (BLE) 2.4GHz radio with 8MB of pseudo-static RAM (PSRAM) and 16MB of flash, expandable by way of microSD Card.
The smartphone styling goes past pure aesthetics: there’s additionally a MagSafe-compatible wi-fi charging system. (📷: LILYGO)
Additionally to be discovered behind the show is a Semtech SX1262 LoRa transceiver, supporting the 433MHz, 868MHz, and 915MHz bands, a real-time clock, and a battery administration chip — linked, for the primary time in LILYGO’s ePaper good show vary, to a MagSafe-compatible wi-fi charging system. The phone-like case contains bodily energy, reset, and boot buttons, a user-definable button, and a USB Kind-C port for knowledge and wired charging.
LILYGO has listed the T5 E-Paper S3 Professional on its webstore at $76.87, with an “early fowl” low cost of 5 per cent bringing it right down to $73.06 — however on the time of writing the gadget had not but been stocked. Further info, together with instance packages, is accessible on LILYGO’s GitHub repository.