22 Jun
2010
22 Jun
'10
3:31 p.m.
On 6/22/10, Philip Pemberton <classiccmp at philpem.me.uk> wrote:
Reverse engineering is a great way to spend a day! :)
Many of my nicer ones have been spent thusly.
I've got a Planar EL panel on my desk,
"liberated" from a supply of Sun
spares (apparently it's meant for a StorEdge A5000 series box). 160x80
pixels, and a 6x3 touchscreen. Very cool looking
Sounds really cool.
Anyway, I think I spent about three days probing and
tweaking it. It's a
standard controller (Epson SED1335) but the touch screen controller is
an ASIC. Turns out it's nice and simple though... Full details (pinouts
and code) on my website if anyone's interested.
I'll have to check it out - I've been hacking HD44780 and T6963 and
SED<mumble> displays for years for LCDproc. It's especially fun to
pull on from some dead bit of technical kit and put the LCD back in
service. I've done that with a $8 front panel from a satellite TV
converter box (LEDs, buttons and 2x40 HD44780 LCD) among others.
-ethan
22 Jun
22 Jun
3:35 p.m.
On 6/22/10, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/22/10, Philip Pemberton <classiccmp at
philpem.me.uk> wrote:
> Anyway, I think I spent about three days probing and tweaking it. It's a
> standard controller (Epson SED1335)... Full details (pinouts
> and code) on my website if anyone's interested.
Looks like they are available for around $65 on this side of the pond
- a bit pricey to play with, but still neat. Thanks for sharing the
results of your efforts.
-ethan
4:04 p.m.
On 22/06/10 23:35, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Looks like they are available for around $65 on this
side of the pond
- a bit pricey to play with, but still neat. Thanks for sharing the
results of your efforts.
?19 and change from "breconjess" on ebay. IIRC that's about $30 or so. I
doubt they'll have a problem chucking a couple of them in a box and
sending them air-mail, they're not particularly heavy.
The display connector is a bit of a pig to find though -- I removed it
and soldered on a piece of IDC cable instead.
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/
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