elastomers and lcds

[cyb0rg777]

I took apart a broken motorola 120t cell phone and got out the lcd .
I found a rubber strip on the back making contact with pads on the circuit board.
I can't think of a way to attach wires or make any connection without making a pcb.
Does anyone have any other way of dealing with this?
Has anyone had any success with these lcds?
Do they run on 3.3v?
It would be awesome to get one into an empty drive bay on my pc,or in another project.
Thanks.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

I took apart a broken motorola 120t cell phone and got out the lcd .
I found a rubber strip on the back making contact with pads on the circuit board.
I can't think of a way to attach wires or make any connection without making a pcb.
Does anyone have any other way of dealing with this?
Has anyone had any success with these lcds?
Do they run on 3.3v?
It would be awesome to get one into an empty drive bay on my pc,or in another project.
Thanks.

It's just a bare LCD, you need to provide all the driver circuitry for it, and (as you say) the connections to them are pretty well impossible to use - even trying to reassemble them is fraught with problems!.

As for voltages, LCD's run on AC, you MUST use an AC drive signal to them.

 

[Oznog]

Yeah you need to just buy an LCD module. Many have wanted to recycle old LCDs. It is plain impractical to do.

 

[cyb0rg777]

Thanks for the reply.
Thats too bad ,modules cost more than an entire cell phone.