Before flying out to Norway, I wanted to find something small to bring on the plane that I could work on in my spare time. I looked around on Adafruit for something in an Arduino or ESP32 category, and I found the Adafruit MagTag, a 2.9″ Grayscale E-Ink Display with WiFi.
I’ve wanted to try to use E-Ink displays for quite some time, so this seemed like the perfect time to order one. I’ve wanted to get several E-Ink displays to tile them together and create a customizable poster to put in my apartment. However, before going to a large-scale project, this seemed like a perfect stepping stone to see if I like the displays and see if it’s worth it as the displays are rather pricey and don’t support more than just a few colors.
The MagTag also has support for CircuitPython, which I’ve never used before to program microcontrollers and have always used C or C++, so I thought it would be fun to try out. I managed to get it connected to the internet using Adafruit’s tutorials and then played around a bit and managed to display a grayscale image of my logo with some text.
I don’t have any specific project in mind, but it comes with a lot of nifty features!
- WiFi
- Four RGB NeoPixels
- Four buttons
- Accelerometer
- Speaker
- Magnetic feet
- Deep sleep
- Battery
I’ll have to think of something to do with it, but the little I’ve played with so far makes me look forward to seeing if I can tile them together!
