Adafruit MagTag 2.9" Grayscale E-Ink WiFi Display

Board
by Adafruitadafruit-magtag≈ medium (~$15–50)

Also known as: adafruit_magtag29_esp32s2

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Adafruit MagTag 2.9" Grayscale E-Ink WiFi Display pinout
Pinout

Specifications

Radiosinherited from ESP32-S2

Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi 4 · 2.4 GHz
Bluetooth LE
none
802.15.4
no

USB

Native USB
yes
Connector
usb-c
Bridge chip
none — SoC native USB

Board

Form factor
magtag
Battery connector
yes
Charging
yes

Display & extras

Display
2.9in 296x128 grayscale E-Ink
Extras
rgb-ledaccelerometerspeakerlight-sensorstemma-qt
Built onAdafruit MagTag 2.9" Grayscale E-Ink WiFi Display BoardESP32-S2 SoC

ESP32-S2 board with a 2.9in 296x128 grayscale E-Ink display, four NeoPixels, LIS3DH accelerometer, speaker, light sensor, LiPoly charging, and STEMMA QT.

Firmware for this board

No firmware recipes yet — help add one.

Notes

  • ESP32-S2 board with a 2.9" grayscale E-Ink display.
  • soc=esp32-s2 QUOTED: "ESP32-S2 240MHz Tensilica processor". flash_mb=4 QUOTED: "4 MByte of Flash". psram_mb=2 QUOTED: "2 MByte of PSRAM".
  • usb.connector=usb-c / bridge=native QUOTED: "USB C power and data connector" and "native USB so it can act like a keyboard/mouse, MIDI device, disk drive, etc". usb_serial omitted: esp32-s2 has USB-OTG only (no USB-Serial-JTAG peripheral).
  • power QUOTED: "a spot for a 350 or 420 mAh battery and built in battery charging over USB C".
  • display QUOTED: "2.9" grayscale display with 296x128 pixels. Each pixel can be white, light gray, dark gray or black".
  • extras QUOTED: rgb-led "Four RGB side-emitting NeoPixels"; accelerometer "Triple-axis accelerometer (LIS3DH)"; speaker "Speaker/Buzzer with mini class D amplifier"; light-sensor "Front facing light sensor"; stemma-qt "STEMMA QT port". ("Four buttons" also present but not listed as a peripheral extra.)
  • dimensions_mm omitted: not stated in mm. io omitted: no explicit broken-out GPIO count.

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Serial monitor

Not connected.