Inkplate 6COLOR

Board
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Inkplate 6COLOR pinout
Pinout

Specifications

Radiosinherited from ESP32

Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi 4 · 2.4 GHz
Bluetooth LE
BLE 4.2
Bluetooth Classic
yes
802.15.4
no

USB

Native USB
no
Connector
usb-c

Board

Form factor
inkplate
Dimensions
131.5 × 105.5 × 10 mm
Battery connector
yes
Charging
yes

Display & extras

Display
5.85in 600x448 7-color E-Ink
Extras
e-inksd-cardrtc
Built onInkplate 6COLOR BoardESP32 SoC

An ESP32 board driving a 5.85in 7-color e-paper panel, with a microSD reader, RTC, USB-C, and onboard Li-ion charging — Arduino (Adafruit GFX) and MicroPython compatible.

Firmware for this board

No firmware recipes yet — help add one.

Notes

  • 7-color panel (black, white, red, yellow, blue, green, orange) with dithering
  • Official BOM lists a plain ESP32-WROVER module (4 MB flash, 8 MB PSRAM per Espressif's ESP32-WROVER datasheet), needed for the color framebuffer
  • io.gpio_free=3 DERIVED, not quoted (SPEC-io-power.md §5.3). Vendor free-GPIO page table marks 5 native ESP32-WROVER pins FREE (not tied to internal components): IO2,4,5,25,26 (IO12/13/14 go to the microSD bus, IO15/34/39 are jumper-gated, IO35 reads V_BAT, IO36 is the wakeup button; P0-0..P0-7,P1-0,P1-3..P1-7 on the PCAL6416A expander are also free but excluded here as non-native SoC pads). Subtracting esp32's reserved_pins among the native free set -- strapping {2,5} (2; IO4/25/26 aren't strapping) -- gives 5 - 2 = 3 (remaining: IO4,25,26). Math not vendor-stated; verify before treating as exact.

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Serial monitor

Not connected.