PP> If anyone has a lead on small bitmap LCD's that aren't outrageous in
PP> price, I'm sure a lot of people on this list would like to hear
PP> about them.

I recently got a 480 X 128 LCD display from ALL ELECTRONICS (1-800-
826-5432) for $12.  It has drivers but no controller.  I was hoping to
build a controller from a PIC, but after getting the part and looking at
the specs, I decided the PIC was too slow.

The screen is divided into four quadrants, and each quadrent has a
serial data line.  The pixel data is clocked into the four serial lines
at around 1.2Mhz.  The spec sheet said the minimum clock frequency was
something like 1.08Mhz.

I ended up sending it back and asked to exchange it for a simpler
single line character LCD display, which also costs $12.  Haven't got it
yet.

Doug Boulware <dougrb@free.org>




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