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Hardware

I used the following hardware:

• Raspberry Pi 2
• Waveshare 7.5inch e-Paper HAT
• IKEA picture frame

The e-Paper display fits nicely into the picture frame. I cut some stripes of cardboard to place the display in the center of the picture frame:

Adding another layer of cardboard to place the Raspberry Pi 2:

Software

System Configuration

The Raspberry Pi 2 is running on the current Raspbian OS.

You might want to add a file with the following content to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ to limit the amount of installed packages

APT::Get::Install-Recommends "false";
APT::Get::Install-Suggests "false";

Go to /boot/config.txt and add dtparam=spi=on.

Reboot

Install the requirements

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

apt-get install fonts-noto-core fonts-noto-cjk
pip3 install dragonmapper

Download

git clone https://github.com/renevinaya/hanzihua.git

Check source files for further actions.