Raspberry Pi + Ink Screen = DIY a super slow movie player

Installing the e-ink screen Here we use an ink screen from Waveshare with a driver board. Plug the driver board into the GPIO of the Raspberry Pi to complete the connection between the screen and the Raspberry Pi. Driving this screen requires enabling the Raspberry Pi's SPI interface. Run sudo raspi-config to enter the configuration tool to enable SPI

Run python routine

• Install function library

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
sudo apt-get install python3-pil
sudo apt-get install python3-numpy
sudo pip3 install RPi.GPIO
sudo pip3 install spidev

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• Install function library (python2)

• Download the program (you can skip this step if you have already downloaded it)

sudo apt-get install p7zip-full
wget  https://www.waveshare.net/w/upload/3/39/E-Paper_code.7z
7z x E-Paper_code.7z -O./e-Paper
cd e-Paper/RaspberryPi_JetsonNano/

• Run program

# Make sure you are in e-Paper/RaspberryPi_JetsonNano/ location 
cd python/examples/ 
python3 epd_4in37g_test.py

To test the above, refer to the 4.37inch e-Paper Module (G) Manual - Waveshare Wiki

Next, download and install the driver software and test program on the Raspberry Pi.

git clone https://github.com/TomWhitwell/SlowMovie/
cd SlowMovie/e-paper/RaspberryPi&JetsonNano/python
sudo python setup.py install

Enter the SlowMovie directory.

cd ~/SlowMovie

The super slow movie player I use uses ffmpeg-python and PIL libraries.

First, you need to install FFmpeg on the Raspberry Pi. Please refer to the official website https://ffmpeg.org/

Then install the Python library.

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg-python
sudo apt-get install python-pil python3-pil

run helloworld to see the effect.

python helloworld.py