FrameOSPimoroni Inky Impression 5.7" 7-colour
A 7-colour e-ink HAT with four physical buttons, driven natively by FrameOS.
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Official store page for this device.
- Vendor
- Pimoroni
- Model
- Inky Impression 5.7" (7-colour)
- Technology
- E-ink
- Colors
- 7 colors (ACeP)
- Resolution
- 600×448 px
- Size
- 5.7″ diagonal
- Interface
- SPI HAT
- Platforms
- Raspberry Pi
- Status
- 🟢 Confirmed working
- Buttons
- 4 (usable in scenes)
- FrameOS driver
pimoroni.inky_impression_5_7
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- Manufacturer: Pimoroni
- Device: Inky Impression 5.7"
- Extra: 4 physical buttons (usable as scene event triggers in FrameOS)
The Inky Impression line is the easiest e-ink hardware to start with: the panel comes glued to a HAT that plugs straight onto the Pi's GPIO header. No soldering, no separate driver board.
Setup
- Plug the HAT onto the Pi, flash the SD card, add the frame in the backend.
- Select the Pimoroni Inky Impression - 5.7" 7-colour driver.
- Save & deploy. The display blinks through its refresh cycle and shows your scene.
Recent Inky Impression models have native Nim drivers in FrameOS (fast, no extra dependencies). Older or unusual Inky models can use the Python driver fallback, which installs Pimoroni's Python library during the first deploy.
The four side buttons are registered automatically and can trigger events in your scenes - switch scenes, cycle images, anything.