A Crystalfontz aficionado may notice that we sell and recommend an Arduino clone, the Seeed Studio Seeeduino, for use with many of our displays. The Seeeduino is a clone of the extremely popular Arduino Uno microcontroller. However, the Seeeduino offers one major advantage over the standard Arduino Uno; it can level shift its I/O lines … Read more On the Level: Arduino and Displays
Summer really flew by during this time warp of a year. So in case you missed any of our new products, we wrangled them all up here.
Enter to win! Accelerated Bar-Type Display Kit Giveaway Entries close the end of March. Shipping is included, but the winner will be responsible for any customs and duties (if applicable). The kit being raffled is an EVE Bar-type Development Kit, and may be an engineering sample.
DIY Transparent Display The transparent display we offer for sale (CFAL12856A0-0151) is an OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) display. OLED displays produce images by emitting light in the corresponding color. To produce black in a normal OLED, the pixels are simply turned off. With the transparent display, if the pixels are turned off, the display … Read more Transparent Display: How to Hack Together Your Own Transparent Display
This guide is for bringing up a compatible OLED display on a CFA10105 breakout board. Compatible OLEDs include: the transparent and these white and yellow displays.
What makes EVE modules so great? Crystalfontz EVE modules include an EVE graphic controller from FTDI/Bridgetek making it easy to use and control the display, touch, backlight, and audio features of an embedded system. Each of the controllable features appears to the host MCU as a memory-mapped SPI device. The host MCU sends commands and … Read more FTDI/Bridgetek Embedded Video Engine (EVE) Modules
Crystalfontz has the solution! We carry development kits that provide a nice jumping off point for exploring a new display.
Introducing our newest addition to the Crystalfontz line of TFT displays: our 240×240 square full-color TFT display — a small, high-density square TFT LCD module. This display is ideal for any application that needs a small display, especially useful for wearables, smartwatch, or small handheld instruments. Hip to be Square Reasons we love this display: Shape: The … Read more New Product Alert: Square 240×240 TFT LCD
If you have visited our blog before, you will know that we love ePaper, also known as eInk. Why? Topping the list is the extremely low power requirements of ePaper. We also love that ePaper is easily readable in all lighting conditions that paper can be read in. This crisp readability makes barcode scanners able … Read more Ready, Set … ePaper Dev Kits Are Here
Crystalfontz is pleased to announce a new product to our product line: 128×64 2.4 Inch OLED Module, available in white or yellow. Key Features Ultra-thin Fast response display SPI interface requires only 4 pins Arduino-compatible demonstration code View This Module in Action Here is a video demo of this module. The module is being demonstrated using … Read more New Product Announcement: Crystalfontz 2.4″ OLED Module
