Experimenting with my Inky pHAT eInk display on a Raspberry Pi Zero today. I’ll be using Pimonori’s own inky library.
I used balenaEtcher to load Raspberry Pi OS Lite onto the Pi’s MicroSD card. The original OS install broke at some point. Thankfully there had been nothing but a simple test script on the card.
The built-in raspi-config sufficed for getting the Pi online.
It’s wild to see that the test image I put on the pHAT is still there months later and as crisp as ever. Almost a shame to write over it.
raspi-config
. Much easier to work on images from my personal Linux OS than from inside a GUI-less install of the Lite OSsudo apt install python3-pip
pip3 install inky[rpi,fonts]
inky
module. Try again with the REPL. Encounter the same issuesudo pip3 install inky[rpi,fonts]
. Python still can’t find the modulecurl https://get.pimoroni.com/inky | bash
. (You really shouldn’t be installing things this way.)Not the most inspirational start but also a good lesson in why prep matters so much to personal projects. The more you can get out of the way before you start on the personal, project-specific part of the work, the better your chances of success. I look forward to revisiting this soon, though.