Get ready to hand over your $40 to the sales guy. . .
Ken Gracey
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We also want you to want. In this case you also have a need. The supplier/customer (or as we call it, the community) ecosystem is a symbiotic relationship. When you buy from Parallax you're making a tremendous reinvestment in your own skill, capability, and future well beyond the cost you paid. You will create things much greater than the item you purchased from us.
Wait, this is just a display we'll be selling....I was getting a bit salesman-like.
But really, you both want and need one potatohead!
Ken Gracey
That's a good idea. I'll enable the up-sell.
Ken
Just so happens I am modeling up a P2 portable. Was looking for display options.
I intend to 3d print it.
Are those PS2 keyboards still in stock? The smaller ones.
Are you going to break out the individual accessory boards at some point? The HDMI, USB Host and USB Device boards are applicable to real world applications while the others are really just for educational experimentation.
That, and waiting for the Rev C boards, is the main reason I have not pulled the trigger to get a P2-ES. Feels wasteful to order boards I know I will never use. With the new display it is even more tempting to get a setup even though I have a P2D2 on order.
Great job on all of this. Looking forward to getting to use FlexGUI and Catalina after all of the hard work those guys have put into them.
You could drop an email to sales@parallax.com, quote your order reference on the Eval, and ask them to add the display and confirm. I'm sure they will handle that today for you.
https://www.parallax.com/product/27390
Well. . . I was crowdsourcing this time and you helped me out Bob. Thanks!
Ken Gracey
When you've already placed an order for a Rev C board and then place another order for the display, I don't think we can easily combine shipping. This would be a time when you call the sales staff and ask them to add the display to save more shipping costs.
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Thanks!
Ken Gracey
You are a Parallax investor.
Ken Gracey
A kit with the display, board, and cable (or make it available separately) would be great, I'm all for using a standard display and code.
That was fast!
Indeed, we don't have the proper cable for this display and I need help finding it. It's a 4-pin JST-style (?) female connector with 5V on pin 1 and ground on pin 4. The spacing of the cable female socket is less than 0.1" between holes (my caliper batteries are dead, sorry).
In the picture below, I have cut back the housing on the display side which locked in the cable. I did this so I could easily attach micrograbber leads.
I'm betting that one of you could identify a source for such a cable - either with a 5V power supply that sources 500 mA) or just bare wires. I can stock whatever you find.
Thanks,
Ken Gracey
Got mine on order. $40 handed over successfully.
I think so, as the dimension "Connector Header Through Hole, Right Angle 4 position 0.079" (2.00mm)" and datasheet confirm what I've measured. I'll get a battery for my calipers today and confirm that pin spacing, but I'm near-certain that's the correct one.
So, we need the mating side with some wires so people can connect power as they wish. Think that exists too, Ray?
Ken Gracey
https://www.amazon.com/Micro-Connector-150mm-Cable-Female/dp/B01DUC1S7S
Darned Roy, that's it by golly. These are cheap enough I'll just add them to the display bag with no cost to the customer.
Aside from having the red wire on the wrong side, this will work fine. I'll assume most of our P2 users can handle that safely.
Ordered a bag to verify and then I'll get enough to load the display bags.
Thanks!
Ken Gracey
So, you'd have to be careful with those extra wires...
Probably best to tie them together in pairs...
Just a 6ft, USB A male to USB A male charge/data or charge/only cord, split in two, will provide a pair of cables, pending only two solder joints, and a piece of heat shrink tubing to complete.
I love this display and it will make my P2 setup portable enough for me to get going again!
800 x 480 is well matched to the known capabilities too. I wonder how tolerant this little screen will be to our various HDMI hacks known so far. (There have been more of those than I expected.)
"Battery for caliper"
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I have one of these from way back in 87. The only downside is Imperial Units. But the upside is decades of great measurements on demand. Have never been without this tool. Always works. I am surprised at how annoyed I truly get when a caliper is dead!
While I use digital tools all the time, I prefer the analog ones for feel where I can get them, and apply the "buy once" philosophy. Go ahead and spend. They last forever.
Someone should make a caliper with a charging case of some sort. Put the batteries in there and something rechargeable in the caliper. Get rid of that annoying battery dead problem.
Dead caliper = grrrrrr
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