--- title: 20 FPS On E-Paper Display Without Help | daily.dev description: A developer achieved 20 FPS on a 960×540 e-paper display using only an ESP32 chip, without additional processing hardware. The technique works by understanding... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/20-fps-on-e-paper-display-without-help-naambzofd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 20 FPS On E-Paper Display Without Help | daily.dev og:description: A developer achieved 20 FPS on a 960×540 e-paper display using only an ESP32 chip, without additional processing hardware. The technique works by understanding... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/20-fps-on-e-paper-display-without-help-naambzofd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NaaMBZoFD.png og:image:alt: 20 FPS On E-Paper Display Without Help og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 20 FPS On E-Paper Display Without Help **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer achieved 20 FPS on a 960×540 e-paper display using only an ESP32 chip, without additional processing hardware. The technique works by understanding how e-ink particles behave and generating optimized driving waveforms that only move particles needed for the next frame, rather than fully erasing and redrawing. An MPEG-like delta encoding transmits only frame changes, reducing data transfer and enabling higher refresh rates on mid-range platforms like Lilygo and M5PaperS3. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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