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Siemens S65 Display

deSilvadeSilva Posts: 2,967
edited 2008-01-30 18:31 in Propeller 1
Would there someone be interested in a S65 display (LP02....) driver? If so I shall try to be cleaner and more descriptive in my recent adaptation...
Here a quite explicite but not so recent link for an AVR adaptation www.superkranz.de/christian/S65_Display/DisplayIndex.html

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  • AleAle Posts: 2,363
    edited 2008-01-29 13:14
    deSilva: I'd have interest, because I bought one of those... and still did not make anything with it :-(. That display is really nice, sadly is a bit small...
    So beta tester here !!!

    Edit: I have the LS20 version smile.gif

    Post Edited (Ale) : 1/29/2008 1:53:36 PM GMT
  • AribaAriba Posts: 2,690
    edited 2008-01-29 13:27
    Yes I am interested. I have such a Display here, that waits for a long time to be driven by a Propeller. But it was never the first entry in my list of projects...
    I have the Epson version (L2F50..), but I hope I can reuse some of your code.

    Andy
  • RaymanRayman Posts: 14,801
    edited 2008-01-29 15:12
    I've got the Nokia knock-off 128x128 from Sparkfun. I suppose it's a similar thing... I would like a driver that allows enough text to be visible to use something like FemtoBasic. Also, in case FemtoBasic doesn't have pixel or line drawing commands, I'd like to see those added...

    I have a feeling that with all the "Green" stuff going on and everybody wanting to recycle cell phones, that these displays are going to get dirt cheap soon...
  • RaymanRayman Posts: 14,801
    edited 2008-01-29 15:15
    deSilva: What kind of font are you thinking about?
  • deSilvadeSilva Posts: 2,967
    edited 2008-01-29 16:05
    Have a look at Clemens thread about the DOGM display!
    It is easy to use the ROM font 16x32, i.e. = 8x5 huge chracters!
    They can be reduced by 2 and look still nice = 16x10
    Clemens' 6x8 font will allow 24 x 20 characters, but most likely unreadable smile.gif

    My main objective is graphics. It shall work mainly with GRAPHICS.SPIN (and the vector font)

    @Ariba: Christian has hacked all three kinds of controllers (and they differ!) , but has published it as AVR code only... Let's see..
  • RaymanRayman Posts: 14,801
    edited 2008-01-29 20:22
    I was thinking about a 6x6 proportional font for my Nokia display...
  • deSilvadeSilva Posts: 2,967
    edited 2008-01-29 20:44
    It COULD be possible. The display is supersharp - in contrast to a VGA monitor - but the glyphs must have a minimal size nevertheless, so with a 43 mm height per 176 pixels, 6 pixels will be 1.4 mm...
  • RaymanRayman Posts: 14,801
    edited 2008-01-30 02:09
    Here's an old 7x8 variable width font that I used for the Palm OS some time ago...· I think it's close to what we want...

    The average width would probably be about 4, maybe 5.· At 4 the Nokia 128x128 screen would be 16x32 chars, which is about the same as the VGA_text driver...

    the PFN file is just text...
    SmallFont.png
    750 x 550 - 21K
    pfn
    pfn
    SmallFonts5.pfn
    14K
  • RaymanRayman Posts: 14,801
    edited 2008-01-30 02:10
    But, my watch uses a 6x6 proportional font that actually looks pretty good...
  • deSilvadeSilva Posts: 2,967
    edited 2008-01-30 09:28
    1.4 mm in height?
    All HD44780 drivers don't use more than 7 dots, but EACH of them is generally 1.4 mm - at least smile.gif
  • Michael OBannonMichael OBannon Posts: 19
    edited 2008-01-30 14:45
    deSilva,

    I would be very interested in such driver!

    Thanks,
    Michael
  • Bill HenningBill Henning Posts: 6,445
    edited 2008-01-30 18:31
    deSilva said...
    Would there someone be interested in a S65 display (LP02....) driver? If so I shall try to be cleaner and more descriptive in my recent adaptation...
    Here a quite explicite but not so recent link for an AVR adaptation www.superkranz.de/christian/S65_Display/DisplayIndex.html

    I'd be quite interested [noparse]:)[/noparse]

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