New Products from Q2
Once a quarter, we take a beat to round up our latest releases. You can see previous product round ups here. 3.5″ Display Family Completely new to the website is a family of 3.5″ Sunlight readable IPS TFT LCDs. This family includes a non-touch, capacitive touch, and resistive touch display. The bright backlight makes this […]
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Flexible OLED Smart Watch
Kevin Choi is back at it with neat projects. Last time, it was Transparent OLED smart glasses, this time a cuff-style watch with an embedded flexible OLED! This watch uses our flexible OLED bent into the cuff chassis. A button on an attached ring allows Kevin to turn the OLED on and off (a smart
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Crystalfontz In the Wild: Linus Tech Tips
One of our engineers spotted a familiar key pad when watching this video: You can see a CFA533 or CFA633 a few times in this video. It appears that Intel uses our modules throughout their testing and development facility. The first sight is during the intro, just quick enough you might miss it: Then, there’s
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RGB and Color Depth
How do TFTs show color? What is color depth for RGB displays? What is the difference between 16.7M colors and 262k? Let’s explore it! How Do TFT LCDs Show Color? To start, let’s discuss how RGB LCDs work. TFT LCDs (thin film transistor liquid crystal displays) comprise a series of layers: Each pixel of a
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Arduino Shield LCD Giveaway!
We recently replaced our family of CFAO12864D3 graphic LCD displays with a new family of 128×64 low power backlit LCDs, but we have some of the Blue D3 displays left in stock. They’re great displays with bright backlights and we have an Arduino-shield style breakout board for them, so they’re great for hobby builders! A
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Spring ’22: New Products
7″ EVE TFT New to our EVE display line-up and our biggest EVE display yet, the 7″ EVE uses Bridgetek’s BT817 to simplify integrating this display. This display module has 1024×600 pixels, a capacitive touchscreen, a sunlight readable backlight, mounting stand-offs, and can be powered off a single 5v voltage source. Product Changes As with
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New Products and a Supply Chain Update
As you’re likely aware, electronics shortages and supply chain problems have amplified from ripples to big waves in the past few months. Back in December 2020, we released a blog post warning about some shortages, and the market has not settled. We are actively working with our suppliers to make sure we have the displays
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Tiny OLED Full Color Slideshow
This guide will walk through how to get started with one of our small full color OLED displays. Then, we’ll talk about a super quick and easy project to do with this display – a photo slideshow! The display we’ll be using is a 0.96″ full color OLED. We have two versions of this display,
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Transparent OLED Smart Glasses
Kevin Choi’s Transparent OLED Glasses with Fresnel Lenses We’ve seen a lot of people making glasses out of our transparent OLEDs, but this is the first iteration we’ve seen that uses lenses to make the display viewable. Kevin Choi (@k.choiii) shared some details of his build with us. Check out his page for more images
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Are These Displays Compatible?
One common topic of support questions our team receives are about replacement displays or about whether two displays are compatible. We’re happy to help you determine whether displays are compatible or not! Here are the steps we take to determine compatibility: Step 1: Is the pin out compatible? This first step is really the most
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New Products Versions – Summer ’21
Crystalfontz works hard to ensure our products are available for the long haul. On this theme, the past few months we have released numerous products that are direct replacements for parts that had an EOL component or other change. Most of our customers are likely familiar with the on going disruption in the electronics and
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