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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How to Drive a Display Backlight
We are often asked how to drive a backlight in our displays. There are three main ways to do so: with an LED driver, a current generating resistor, or a current generating resistor and a transistor. We will explore the benefits and drawbacks of these choices. It’s important to remember that display backlights are typically
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Transparent OLED Breakout Board: FAQs
Do you have a transparent OLED question? Check out this compilation of frequently asked questions about the transparent OLED display and the transparent OLED breakout board (CFA10105). First, a lot of other questions can be answered by checking out these resources: CFA10105 datasheet (will download) Transparent OLED datasheet Getting started guide (for Seeeduino) Transparent on
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New Displays and Accessories
We’ve been working hard this year to make more display options available on our website. We have introduced a new board, the CFA10110 for our family of graphic LCDs, a new size in our EVE collection (what is an EVE display?), expanded our options in 5″ displays, and added a few accessories for individual purchase.
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Graphic LCD Adapter Board: CFA10110 Getting Started
Relevant Displays and Kits Do you need help getting started with your graphic LCD and CFA10110 adapter board? This getting started guide helps bring up any of the following displays or kits: If you need a guide for the CFAG12864T3 or CFAG12864U3 using a generic breakout board, check out this getting started guide or our
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Crystalfontz in the Wild: Volumetric Display
We’ve been anxiously watching Sean Hodgins’ (@idlehandsdev) channels since he first started teasing his volumetric display build. And we were blown away by both his final build and the build video. Using 10 transparent OLEDs, a custom designed PCB, and a feather microcontroller, Sean made an extremely cool 3 dimensional display, and an extremely fun
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Pi Day Giveaway
This giveaway has now closed This year for Pi Day, Crystalfontz is giving away a transparent OLED and a Pi Zero! Transparent OLED on Pi Zero The transparent OLED, transparent OLED breakout board, a USB cable, necessary wires and headers, and a Pi Zero with the uSD card, running a demonstration.
New Products: Winter of 2020
As always, the Crystalfontz engineering team has been hard at work to bring new displays, boards, and accessories to our line up. Since our last new product round up we’ve added nearly 20 new parts to our line up. New Displays We’ve introduced a whole host of new display options. Square 4″ Displays We’ve released
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