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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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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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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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Wishlist Giveaway!
We want to give you what you want! Let us know what Crystalfontz displays or breakout boards are on your wish list. We’ll be selecting a few winners, so let your friends know! Maybe a transparent OLED and breakout board? Maybe an EVE module for a project with some cool graphics? You tell us! Christmas
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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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On the Level: Arduino and Displays
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
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Summer 2020: New Products
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.
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Choosing a Display: Overview
There is a wide world of display technology out there and it can be difficult to decide which type of display will work best for a given project. This post will help narrow down your options. Remember that the display is often the main human interface to a product, so it’s important to find a
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Display Variety Pack Giveaway!
Explore different display technologies by winning this variety pack, which includes one of each type of display that we carry. Plus, each of these displays comes with a carrier or breakout board so it can easily be connected to the included Seeeduino. This giveaway includes the following: A 1.54″ yellow OLED and its breakout board
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FPC
FPC stands for flexible printed circuit. An example of an FPC is the gold tail on most of our TFTs and touchscreens. FPCs commonly included components, in contrast with an FFC. FPCs are typically used with a ZIF connector to connect to a PCB. When looking for a compatible ZIF connector for a given FPC,
