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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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What is a Display?
Brand new to displays? This post is the perfect start point. What does “display” mean? When we say “display” we are speaking generally about all LCD, TFT, OLED, and ePaper displays. Sometimes displays are included in a module that adds features and these modules are still called “displays” so that can certainly be confusing. In
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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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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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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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RGB
The RGB interface transfers image data using a separate parallel line for each bit of color information. For larger color depths, more lines have to be independently controlled. Each line represents a 2x multiplier on potential colors that can be described. Monochrome displays have just 1-bit color and pixels are either “on” or “off”. A
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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daylight readable
A daylight readable display is usable in bright indirect light. For a TFT, daylight readable tends to mean the backlight is at least 500 nits. Of course, transflective and reflective displays do not need strong backlights to be daylight readable. Daylight readable displays include sunlight readable displays, though not all daylight readable displays will be
sunlight-readable
A sunlight-readable display can be read in direct sunlight. Often the term “sunlight readable” is used in reference to a TFT display having a super-bright backlight that overpowers the light of the sun to be visible. This typically occurs around 800 nits. However, other display technologies achieve sunlight readable status without trying to overpower the
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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