I know e-ink has a nice look to it, but for a dashboard connected to a raspberry pi (that needs power anyways) is there any other reason not to use a cheaper LCD monitor instead?
You can shutdown the Pi between refresh cycles, too, but would probably need an external circuit to wake it up again. For microcontrollers, a capacitor and a resistor is usually enough.
But if you don’t care about the extra efficiency and don’t want to play with the technology, there is really not much left to justify the e-ink display.
This looks like a solid entry level hardware project for anyone interested in raspberry pi and e-ink technologies.
OK. What's yellow ice?
You’ve been warned.
In the UK, weather alerts are at different levels of yellow, amber or red. Yellow Ice Warning = it's an ice warning, level yellow.