Seeed XIAO ePaper Display Board EE02

The XIAO ePaper Display Board EE02 is Seeed's DIY route to a big color frame: a XIAO ESP32-S3 Plus (8 MB of PSRAM, 16 MB of flash) on a carrier made for the 13.3" Spectra 6 1200×1600 panel (60-pin connector), with three keys, a reset and a boot button, and a battery connector with a charger and power switch. Buy it with the panel and you have the parts of a reTerminal E1004 to put in a frame of your own.

FrameOS runs the full on-device renderer on it, on the same 16-bit canvas as the E1004.

Setup

1. In the FrameOS backend or FrameOS Cloud, create a frame with Flash embedded device and choose ESP32-S3.
2. Select the Seeed XIAO ePaper EE02 hardware preset (seeed_xiao_ee02). It selects the waveshare.EPD_13in3e driver with the T133A01 refresh sequence this glass wants, the panel's second chip select, the panel power switch, the three keys and the battery wiring.
3. Flash it over USB from the browser, then install scenes as usual.

A full refresh on a panel this size takes around half a minute.

Buttons and battery

The keys are KEY1 (GPIO 2), KEY2 (GPIO 3) and KEY3 (GPIO 5), and they arrive in scenes as button events. Nothing is bound to them out of the box: give them a job under button actions. The battery is read through a 2:1 divider on GPIO 1, switched on by GPIO 6.

The board can't tell the firmware when USB is plugged in, so the preset leaves deep sleep off. Turn it on under Power if the frame lives on its battery.

Pin map

Status

🟡 Should work, not yet confirmed on real hardware. The panel driver is the E1004's, and the pins are from Seeed's schematic. Tell us on GitHub or Discord if you try it.