As you may have read in a recent post, I’ve become enamoured of the newer versions of the e-Ink or e-Paper displays to hit the hobby market. They look great and (apparently) aren’t too difficult to drive, plus their inherent ability to maintain the display when “off” looks to be a major plus for any battery-powered projects. 
Unfortunately, there isn’t a whole lot of good, solid information out there yet on using these screens. That is changing though, as the prices start to drop enough so that people can afford to buy one or two to play with, even if they’re not entirely sure that they’ll work in a given project. One of those brave early adopters is David Watts and he’s put together a very informative video on how to interface a Waveshare 1.54″ display to an ESP8266, along with details on connections, graphics libraries to use and even a design for a 3D printed desktop stand for the completed project. It’s well worth a look.
On the subject of the screens themselves, it’s also worth noting that versions with an attached driver/interface card (which is much easier to use) are popping up on all of 
the usual on-line bazaars, so it’s worth taking a few minutes to check whether you’re about to buy a bare screen (with a tiny, 24-pin, flex cable connector) or the former, driver/interface card equipped version. Confusingly, both are advertised as being “SPI” interfaces and only a check of the photos of the unit for sale will confirm whether you have a usable 8-pin socket, or just a flapping flex-cable. One of the cheaper options is one of the Raspberry Pi “HAT” displays, They all seem to come with a standard RPi header connector, as well as the 8-pin connector (or at least the solder pads for it) and, presumably because they’re quite popular, seem to be quite cheap, too.
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