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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<\/a> we’ve added nearly 20 new parts to our line up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Displays<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We’ve introduced a whole host of new display options. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image title text \"Winter 2020: New Displays\" Crystalfontz Logo. An image of six displays - displays listed below in text. Each display is displaying information about the individual display.<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Square 4″ Displays<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We’ve released two square 4″ displays: one with an overhanging capacitive<\/a> touchscreen and one with no touch sensing. These 4″ displays are quite neat and would be a great choice to incorporate into a thermostat or other wall mounted info panel. We think they’d be great displays for IOT applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In-Cell Touch Sensing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

An exciting piece of new technology we’ve brought to our site since our last newsletter is two in-cell touch<\/a> displays. These displays sense touch using sensors embedded in the glass of the display. That means no second touchscreen tail. The two displays are a 0.96″ 64×128<\/a>, and a 1.71″ 32×128  OLED display<\/a>.
Keep your eyes peeled in 2021 for a demo board for these displays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bar Type EVE<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We’ve been steadily expanding our selection of EVE displays<\/a>. That selection now includes a bar type EVE with no touch panel<\/a>. This would be a great display for an in-home appliance, or a 1U appliance, as this display module is designed to fit 1U devices.
As with all of our EVE<\/a> displays, this bar type display is available as a development kit, wired up and running a demo sketch<\/a>.
Read more about how an EVE display can help speed up your product development<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Versions of Old Displays<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We love when we’re able to bring in a new version of an old favorite display. We introduced two such displays recently.
First is a 5″ resistive touch display<\/a>. Between the resistive<\/a> touchscreen and the high brightness, this display will shine in an outdoor application. Watch for an EVE version of this display in 2021.
Second, this 2.7″ white OLED<\/a>, which is a drop-in companion of our yellow OLED<\/a>.
Sometimes, we have to update our displays due to our suppliers EOL’ing parts. That was the case with our 1.54″ e-paper. The new version has slightly different dimensions and initialization code, but is still a nice low power display. It’s available as a display on its own<\/a>, as a display module with our e-paper breakout board<\/a>, and as a development kit<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other New Products<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We’ve also been expanding our selection of display accessories. Let us know if there’s an accessory you haven’t been able to find, and we’ll look into sourcing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, we brought in some rows of header pins<\/a> for use with Arduino or Seeeduinos. Or anything else that uses a single row of 0.1″ headers.
Second, four different lengths of 2-56 screws<\/a>. 2-56 is the size of screw used to mount many of our modules with included stand-offs, such as our EVEs and intelligent LCDs.
Third, a flat flex cable (FFC)<\/a> that pairs with our 5″ MIPI display<\/a> to connect to the DSI connector on a Raspberry Pi.
Finally, we added yet another ZIF<\/a> connector size. This time, it’s a 6-position 0.5mm pitch connector<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact Us<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

If you have any questions, we can be reached at support@crystalfontz.com, we also provide chat and telephone support<\/a> Monday through Friday during our open hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We love to hear about your projects! Find us around the web (YouTube<\/a>, Facebook<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, LinkedIn<\/a>,  Twitter<\/a>, Forum<\/a>) and let us know what you’re working on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n