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On the weekend, I found another awesome old slide viewer in an antique store, and decided to mount an LCD screen in it. I was going to do it with the one I found a couple weeks ago, but I like this one better. So, after a few hours of soldering ribbon cable, and cutting and gluing card stock, I ended up with this.
This lovely little display breakout is the best way to add a small, colorful and bright display to any project. Since the display uses 4-wire SPI to communicate and has its own pixel-addressable frame buffer, it can be used with every kind of microcontroller. Even a very small one with low memory and few pins available!
The 1.8″ display has 128×160 color pixels. Unlike the low cost “Nokia 6110″ and similar LCD displays, which are CSTN type and thus have poor color and slow refresh, this display is a true TFT! The TFT driver (ST7735R) can display full 18-bit color (262,144 shades!). And the LCD will always come with the same driver chip so there’s no worries that your code will not work from one to the other.
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Hi there! Thanks for sharing this. It was a lot of fun to make.
Comment by Derek Lewis — July 12, 2012 @ 4:08 pm