Touch Screen Displays
Cap Touch vs. High Brightness on TFT Displays: What Each Upgrade Actually Costs
You’ve picked a resolution and a size. Now your BOM review has two open questions that always seem to show up together: do we need touch, and do we need to fight sunlight? Both feel like “nice to haves” until a field test in July proves otherwise, and both change your unit cost, your power […]
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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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Resistive Touch vs. Capacitive Touch
When deciding between resistive and capacitive touch, be sure to consider where as well as how the display will be used.
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Turn HDMI Display Backlight Off When Raspberry Pi is Off
We were recently working with a customer who was using our 10.1″ HDMI display with a Raspberry Pi, but he had run into a problem. When the Raspberry Pi shut down, he needed the display backlight to also turn off and stay off. Since the backlight on the display turns on if uncontrolled, when the
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March Giveaway: Accelerated Bar-Type Display Kit
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. KelseyKelsey is an engineer at Crystalfontz. She graduated from
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FTDI/Bridgetek Embedded Video Engine (EVE) Modules
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
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Enter to Win: 10.1 Inch Display and Raspberry Pi Giveaway
To celebrate the beginning of the new decade, Crystalfontz is hosting a giveaway.
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FAQ: Capacitive or Resistive Touch?
22/08/11 – This topic was covered in greater detail in this blog post: Resistive Touch vs. Capacitive Touch What is the difference between a resistive and a capacitive touch screen? The biggest difference a user will notice between a resistive and a capacitive touch screen is that a resistive touch screen can only detect one
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