OLED Breakout Board: Getting Started Guide
This guide is for bringing up a compatible OLED display on a CFA10105 breakout board. Compatible OLEDs include: the transparent and these white and yellow displays.
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FTDI/Bridgetek Embedded Video Engine (EVE) Modules
What makes EVE modules so great? Crystalfontz EVE modules include an EVE graphic controller from FTDI/Bridgetek making it easy to use and control the display, touch, backlight, and audio features of an embedded system. Each of the controllable features appears to the host MCU as a memory-mapped SPI device. The host MCU sends commands and
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Enter to Win: 10.1 Inch Display and Raspberry Pi Giveaway
To celebrate the beginning of the new decade, Crystalfontz is hosting a giveaway.
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How to Load Custom Firmware on a CFA735 or CFA835
Want to run custom firmware on a CFA735 or CFA835? You’re in luck! This tutorial will help you hack a CFA735/CFA835.
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Displays Made Easy – Development Kits
Crystalfontz has the solution! We carry development kits that provide a nice jumping off point for exploring a new display.
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October Round Up – New TFT Displays
The weather here in Spokane Valley has veered sharply into the too-cold-to-go-outside region, so we’re ready to bunker down and build some cool projects. We’ve released a few new products this past month that make it even more enticing to stay inside get a little creative on these long dark days. New Products: 5.2 Inch Bar-Type
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Why does my ePaper display not work with my ePaper Adapter Board?
Why doesn’t my ePaper display work with my ePaper Adapter Board?
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FAQ: How does ePaper work with such low power consumption?
Electronic paper or ePaper modules have one outstanding feature: Once an image is written to an ePaper module, the image will stay there indefinitely, even if no power at all is supplied to the ePaper module. How does ePaper work? It is done with one of the first widely produced examples of nanotechnology. Inside the
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FAQ: What is the best display for an Arduino?
The best display for an Arduino is the one that makes your project work great and look great. Short answer: the Crystalfontz 96×64 OLED or the Crystalfontz Arduino shield kit with a graphic LCD display. Long answer: Crystalfontz has many displays, and lots of them can easily work with an Arduino — but you need
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FAQ: Capacitive or Resistive Touch?
22/08/11 – This topic was covered in greater detail in this blog post: Resistive Touch vs. Capacitive Touch What is the difference between a resistive and a capacitive touch screen? The biggest difference a user will notice between a resistive and a capacitive touch screen is that a resistive touch screen can only detect one
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7″ HDMI Raspberry PI TFT Display
We add to our catalog of new product videos and demonstrations as often as we can. In this video, we are showcasing our new 7″ HDMI Raspberry PI display, which is available now. This 7 inch TFT LCD was designed specifically for integration with a Raspberry PI. It uses the RPI’s HDMI port, PINS and USB connection
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