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You may have seen them already, but I note displays like the following are =
presently=20
quite common. They probably fall into the category of small rather than mic=
ro:

https://www.buydisplay.com/0-96-inch-mini-color-tft-lcd-display-module-80x1=
60-ips-t
ft-st7735

https://www.buydisplay.com/1-14-inch-tft-lcd-display-ips-panel-screen-135x2=
40-for-s
mart-watch

SPI interface, LCD, good brightness and IPS tech fools some into thinking t=
hey are=20
OLED.

Then there are ones like this, which really are OLED:

https://www.buydisplay.com/serial-spi-color-0-95-inch-oled-display-module-9=
6x64-pi
xels-ssd1331

Brent

On 15 Oct 2021 at 13:24, Harold Hallikainen wrote:

> Years ago, I designed a product with a microdisplay (about 1/4 inch
> diagonal). Originally it was designed with a display from MicroEmmissive
> Devices, but they went bankrupt. Then changed to a backlit LCD from Kopin=
..
> That is now EOL. So, what microdisplays are available? The MED one was
> nice in that it had a standard SPI interface and a driver. I just told it
> which pixels to light and it took care of it. No refresh needed. The Kopi=
n
> display requires continuous video (and pretty complex with phase inversio=
n
> on every line and every frame). I did this with the SPI interface on a
> PIC. The image bitmap was put in RAM and an SPI interrupt picked up the
> next 8 pixels to send.
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> So, I'd really like to find an OLED microdisplay with an SPI interface.
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> Ideas?
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> Thanks!
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> Harold
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