Adafruit Sharp Memory Display Breakout

Ultra-Low Power, Daylight Visible Display

by Bill Earl

published June 22, 2013, last edited January 22, 2025
last major update June 09, 2021

posted in Adafruit Products LCDs & Displays/ Graphic LCDs Breakout Boards/ LCDs, LEDs, & Displays

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Beginner

Product guide

CircuitPython displayio Setup

CircuitPython Installation

First make sure you are running the latest version of Adafruit CircuitPython for your board, and that sharpdisplay is in its supported modules list.

This feature is very new and not currently available in the latest public build, so you will need to go to https://circuitpython.org/, select your board, and find the "Absolute Newest" image.

Libraries

Next you'll need to install the necessary libraries to use the hardware--carefully follow the steps to find and install these libraries from Adafruit's CircuitPython library bundle. Our CircuitPython starter guide has a great page on how to install the library bundle.

Download latest Library Bundle

There are many libraries in the bundle that enhance displayio, but the two we need for the example code are

adafruit_display_text - to show text and labels
adafruit_bitmap_font - to load fonts from CIRCUITPY for better typography than the "built in" font

Before continuing make sure your board's lib folder or root filesystem has the adafruit_display_text and adafruit_bitmap_font folders copied over.

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