From Mobility to Mowing: Hacking Surplus Medical Equipment for an Autonomous Lawnmower
Imagine an autonomous lawnmower, precisely navigating your yard with no human intervention. Now, imagine its heart and soul is a repurposed electric wheelchair. This is the premise of a fascinating project where a Jazzy Select Mobility Scooter Wheelchair is transformed into an autonomous mower. By hacking its control system, Brent is leveraging the scooter’s robust […]
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Transparent LCD on a Raspberry Pi
Want to bring up one of our transparent LCDs on a Raspberry Pi but confused about how exactly to do that? This is the post for you! Getting Started This guide will walk through using our CFAG12864Ux/Tx Raspberry Pi demo code. It is relevant to a wide range our our graphic LCDs, a list of
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New Products – Spring 2024
As always, the Crystalfontz team has been working to bring you new and exciting display solutions. This update includes a family of modules designed to integrate with the Raspberry Pi CM4, some transparent LCDs, a family of 2.8″ TFTs, and a few updates to products to ensure long availability with minimal design changes required. Transparent
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Setting Up Your EVE Display: A Quick Guide
Have you just purchased one of our Embedded Video Engine (EVE) displays and are wondering how to get up and running? This blog post aims to help users get started with their newly received EVE displays from setting up the hardware to running various demos. Before we jump in, if you have not already, take
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Summer 2023 – New Products
We’ve released some pretty neat new products this summer! Check them out below: Displays New Small TFTs Our new TFTs are tiny! We added a family of TFTs that are less than 1″ on the diagonal with full color and an optional touchscreen. Find out more on the product pages: We also introduced a family
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Custom Images on EVE Displays
A frequent question that is received by our support team is how to load custom images on our EVE lineup of displays. Due to differences in the EVE processors between boards and other factors, depending on the display you have, the process may change. The different processes for the boards have been outlined below. The
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New 4.3″ and 5″ TFT Displays
4.3″ TFTs in Two Resolutions We recently brought up a variety of 4.3″ TFT displays. With two resolution options (either 800×480 or 480×272) and three touch options (no touch, resistive touch, and capacitive touch) that’s six new mid-sized TFTs. All of these displays have bright backlights making them sunlight readable and are IPS. The new
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Code Questions: CFAL4864A-071BW
Our customer support team is here to help! We have recently received some questions about our small 0.71″ OLED display. These questions and answers are also relevant to our 0.66″ OLED display, which shares the same pinout and controller (the SSD1306). To send 8 bytes of data using SPI, each byte requires 8 data clocks
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New Products in 2022
Our team has been working hard this year to bring new products to the market and to ensure our parts are continually available. Low Cost Graphic LCD This display was specially designed to have a matching form factor to our popular 128×64 graphic displays. We wanted a display with increased capabilities but without the price
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In the Wild: Netflix Open Connect – CFA635
Recently, a Reddit post came to our attention in which someone had an old Netflix server, and on the face of that server was an awfully familiar keypad. Commenters confirmed in the thread that it is a CFA635. We had to look into it more and find out if there was more information about these
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CFA632 and CFA634 Custom Characters
We recently received a question about setting custom characters on our CFA632 and CFA634 modules. The datasheet includes an example of using custom characters which looks like this: The customer wanted to know what was going on and what would the custom characters look like. Here is how our support engineer answered: 1. The example
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