Your choice of a GUI?
ScottishCaptain
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Greetings to all.
I've taken up a very large project which I hope will be available to the robotics community in a few months. It's in the early planning stages, so I've got a choice to make.
This particular project calls for a 5.7" LCD Interface screen of some sort, above and beyond a 2x20 Character LCD Screen.
Here are the choices for the 5.7" LCD:
Monochromatic 5.7" Touch Screen, 320x240 Resolution
- Programmable via the Serial Port, supports text and graphcis
- Not *quickly* programmable via C/C++, although perfectly possible and recommended, it isn't an easy job since graphics aren't handled in a user friendly way (you need to send it the raw bitmap data to display via the serial commands)
- Somewhat more durable then a VGA Color Screen
- Consumes less power then a Color screen
Color LCD 5.7" Touch Panel, 640x480 Resolution
- Programmable via an embedded Macromedia Flash Player
- Communicates easily with C/C++ Applications
- Allows for some wickedly cool looking user interfaces
- Easily recompiled and modified without changing the robot's C/C++ main application
- Offers Linux bootup text support when the robot is firing up
- Requires Macromedia Flash or MTASC
- UI runs as a separate process aside from the main application (good thing?)
Ether or take up the same amount of space on the robot. They will both be built into the chassis properly, so that the only cutout is a 5.7" square where the LCD panel itself is visible/usable. No internal parts will be visible in ether case as it's all contained within the chassis.
Cheers!
-S'Captain
I've taken up a very large project which I hope will be available to the robotics community in a few months. It's in the early planning stages, so I've got a choice to make.
This particular project calls for a 5.7" LCD Interface screen of some sort, above and beyond a 2x20 Character LCD Screen.
Here are the choices for the 5.7" LCD:
Monochromatic 5.7" Touch Screen, 320x240 Resolution
- Programmable via the Serial Port, supports text and graphcis
- Not *quickly* programmable via C/C++, although perfectly possible and recommended, it isn't an easy job since graphics aren't handled in a user friendly way (you need to send it the raw bitmap data to display via the serial commands)
- Somewhat more durable then a VGA Color Screen
- Consumes less power then a Color screen
Color LCD 5.7" Touch Panel, 640x480 Resolution
- Programmable via an embedded Macromedia Flash Player
- Communicates easily with C/C++ Applications
- Allows for some wickedly cool looking user interfaces
- Easily recompiled and modified without changing the robot's C/C++ main application
- Offers Linux bootup text support when the robot is firing up
- Requires Macromedia Flash or MTASC
- UI runs as a separate process aside from the main application (good thing?)
Ether or take up the same amount of space on the robot. They will both be built into the chassis properly, so that the only cutout is a 5.7" square where the LCD panel itself is visible/usable. No internal parts will be visible in ether case as it's all contained within the chassis.
Cheers!
-S'Captain
Comments
try looking at the EZ-LCD product line (ez-100 : EZ-400 : EZ-touch screen : or there larger display units, easy to use ,good price.
although there many LCD-product out there to choose from these do work with the BS-2 and come with example codes
al-spider(Midnight-Eng)
store.earthlcd.com/ezLCD-002-EDK-ezLCD002EDK?sc=7&category=297
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- HST
I'm trying to use the EZ-lcd 001 with the BS2px keep getting undefind ver error mesg;
and i know enough to try i2c code so can you guys please pose example code for learning.
i have the problem when i run the Emic example code on the BS2px . seem like most of accessories code are writen for the BS2- IC.
please i need all the help i can get building my dream Bot.