Post by thread:LCD Display Recommendations

Hi - I'm looking for the lowest possible cost 128 x 64 or 128 x 128 LCD graphic module. Non-backlit STN is fine. I've looked at Optrex, Seiko, Hantronix. How do these stack up? Would appreciate your recommendations especially on the quality of associated documenation for the controllers including secondary source (preferably free) information. While I'm at it, I'd appreciate the same input for LCD character type displays. Please respond direct. Thanks for your help. Ron

Ooo. I'd appreciate an on-line discussion on this - just make it [OT]. I am extremely interested in other's experience with 1/8 or 1/4 VGA graphical displays with PICs. I've got a fairly complicated display project coming up and I want to use one of these instead of a 16x2 (or larger) display. For those that are interested, Apollo Displays has a cool 1/8 VGA at: http://www.apollodisplays.com/prod14.htm If they're saying $45/sample - that's not too bad. -DO > {Original Message removed}

At 23:21 22/03/00 -0500, you wrote: >Hi - I'm looking for the lowest possible cost 128 x 64 or 128 x 128 LCD >graphic module. Non-backlit STN is fine. I've looked at Optrex, Seiko, >Hantronix. How do these stack up? Would appreciate your >recommendations especially on the quality of associated documenation for >the controllers including secondary source (preferably free) >information. While I'm at it, I'd appreciate the same input for LCD >character type displays. Please respond direct. Thanks for your help. At work we are using a 128x128 pixel display, no back light, reflective from PowerTip. The guy who is programming it thinks highly of it and in quantity of about 400Per annum is about 25 pounds (sterling). It is a slightly green display. It seems that most 128x128 displays hold to a single format. The driver chip is a toshiba one. Unfortunately he had to spend a lot of time converting C to assembler because our Z80 C compiler generated so much crap writing to the display that it took for ever to update ... If you are in the UK, take a look at a company called Inelco who retails PowerTip products. Alternatively look in the RS catalogue and pay about 70 sterling for the same product. robert. -- Robert Hodkinson, SF nut and a Render-head. http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/5939 reply email is spam_OUTbag.itTakeThisOuTcableol.co.uk