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Very nice! On the .1" , is that PDIP?

Richard,

Very nice display and implementation Sir.

Mike

Originally Posted by Mike, K8LH

Richard,

Very nice display and implementation Sir.

Mike

Are you an OM or did you pick up a silent key? WA4BJO

Originally Posted by Space Varmint

Are you an OM or did you pick up a silent key? WA4BJO

I picked K8LH from the list of available calls in February '99.

Hi,

Hope its of use to assembler users - there seems to have been very few modern displays around at a sensible price.

The prices of these units mean they are almost as cheap as 2x16 or 4x16 lcd , but offer so much more, and only take up 4 i/o lines.

Unfortunately, according to a friend in Canada, neither unit is available in North America, but otherwise the RS units seem to be worldwide.

I've listed all the datasheet links in the .pdf , the Displaytech ltd. site had little of use, that I could find

Originally Posted by Space Varmint

Very nice! On the .1" , is that PDIP?

For the Dog units, a 40 way Turned Pin socket cut in half and spaced at 1.8" does the job - nice and easy !

One little note - the Dog displays and back light are supplied as separate units, which are easily soldered together - but once done its not practicable to split them again, so make sure you have removed all of the protective films from both units !


Richard

Originally Posted by Mike, K8LH

I picked K8LH from the list of available calls in February '99.

OK FB! Looks like I'm the OM around here...lol.

And FB (Fine Business) Richard. Not sure I am familiar with that pin configuration but have done enough SM for it not to make a difference. The back-lights usually come separate with 7 seg. transflective types. Who did the dinosaur? Nice art work!

Hi,

A couple of footnotes on the glcd project:-

The EA DogL glcds do have touch screen stick-ons available at a reasonable price.
There are two types - an analogue that requires its own controller and the simpler 'digital switch' resistive type in a 5x3 matrix.
I chose the latter as it connects directly to the Pic ports with just a pull up.
When ordering, the little FPC type smd connector needs to be specified separately. Although smd, its pins are just over 1mm apart and are hand solderable with care.

The attached pics show my initial crude test display with the touch screen.
It really does open up a another dimension ....


The second point regarding supply of the EA DOG glcds, not every country has a distributor, and not all distributors will supply one offs to the diyers.
When I visited MMe in the UK to collect the touch screen, Marc, the owner, advised that he already does supply large and small one off orders around the world to private users; - contact links in the earlier pdf.

enjoy,


Richard