$1 Color QVGA 1.1" 128x96

[3v0]

Pasan's thermometer thread reminded me that I had seen this display,

Sparkfun has a **broken link removed** display for $1.

Color QVGA 1.1" 128x96

sku: LCD-08844
Description: This is a small 1.1" diagonal color 128x96 pixel QVGA screen found out the outside of many cellular flip phones. These are meant to be deeply embedded, ...

The ribbon connector is 33pin with 0.6mm pitch. Comes with small adhesive backing on ribbon connector....

Features:

• Transmissive TFT
• 17x22mm active area
• 128x96 RGB pixel
• 262k color
• 18-bit parallel data interface
• Driver IC HD66782

**broken link removed**

Too good to be true, maybe, maybe not. It seems that no one has interfaced to it yet.

A comment from the sparkfun site

Here's a datasheet for a module using the HD66782 controller. Includes initialisation data, which should help in the absence of 66782 data.
Has similarities and differences to the 66871. (& remember the LCD glass will also have differences)
Looks like this module doesn't use the OSD interface, but has a parallel CPU I/F. I'd expect the commands for this to need sending to the SPI interface on the SF module.

 

[VISN]

They've got a 2.4in 320x240 selling as well. When someone cracks this items I guess someone would buy the whole whack and resell it - that's what I would do. It is like being outside a candy shop, these LCD's could be so sweet.
https://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8843

 

[Hero999]

It isn't really QVGA (one quater of the resolution of VGA) which is 320x240.

 

[philba]

there's a bit of discussion in the SFE forums. The connector is some odd thing with .6 mm pitch. There's a guy creating a header for it that brings out 100 mil pitch pins for use in a SBB. Apparently the connector is hard to find.