I cannot for the life of me get my 4.2in waveshare display to talk to my rpi Pico, I feel like Ive tried everything, I got it to work with my arduino mega with little pain, but I cant even get the pico to confirm that it has the right pins, please help me zingg
Did you try with the example GxEPD2_Example.ino?
Take a look at line 142 and following.
I did try that, unfortunately I don’t think the suggested pins work
I don't think you provided enough information.
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The first thing anyone trying to help you needs is the schematic and the code. You have provided nether so far.