From: Doug S. <do...@pr...> - 2005-09-30 15:23:49
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Holly, Have you tried the Toshiba poly-silicone TFT displays? http://www.tridentdisplays.co.uk/component_displays/colour_modules/industrial_tft_panel/4_industrial_tft.html These are 200 pixels per inch, and are advertised as being close to paper or photos in appearance. I have wanted to try these but haven't gotten around to it yet. I think 4" VGA at 202ppi would be a nice form factor. -- Doug Holly Gates wrote: >The trouble is that the 6" screen is the only one which has made it all >the way to standard product status and which we have to rights to sell >to anyone. We have done all sorts of other sizes, but only in the >context of an engineering trial or demo. We've done an engineering >sample of a 10" A5 sized display, 1280x900, but if you think the dev kit >is expensive, you should see how much we charge for those! Lets see, a >TFT mask set and all the engineering amortized across less than 100 >parts... Well anyway they are expensive but semi-available. A while ago >we did a fair number of 3" QVGA screens, but while the company we did >them with agreed to let us show them at tradeshows and the like, we >can't sell them in small quantity. > >I think we may start offering a character and segment dev kit, but its >still under discussion. I'm on the hook to design the electronics for >such a kit, but so far the marketing and applications engineering people >can't decide what should be in it or what it should do. A kit like that >would probably have a serial interface or something, so it would be >relatively easier to hook up to a gumstix than an active matrix panel is. > >-Holly > >Daniel Blackburn wrote: > > > >>Do you know of any plans for a dev kit for smaller displays such a >>ones used on Epsons passive RFID tag display? Or of a dev kit for the >>character and segmented displays? Or as you suggested might be the >>case with colour display are these more likely to be accessories to >>this initial dev kit. Just desperate to get my hands on this tech but >>that 6"screen is a bit large for my plans : ) >> >>Cheers, >>Dan >> >>Holly Gates wrote: >> >> >> >>>Final cost should be competitive with active matrix LCD. Right now our >>>only commercial products are greyscale, but we have done color and >>>expect to commercialize that next year (with a lead customer). I >>>personally would like to sell our next color samples as accessories to >>>the developer's kit, since you can use all the same electronics to drive >>>them. >>> >>>-Holly >>> >>>Dan Cherill wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>>hmm.. a bit out of my price range. :) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>no kidding. >>>> >>>>any idea what the final cost of a display would be, or what sizes will be >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>available. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>greyscale only? >>>> >>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>From: gum...@li... >>>>[mailto:gum...@li...]On Behalf Of >>>>N.E.Whiteford >>>>Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 6:50 PM >>>>To: gum...@li... >>>>Subject: Re: [Gumstix-users] E Ink demo kits >>>> >>>> >>>>hmm.. a bit out of my price range. :) >>>> >>>>On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Holly Gates wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know that the press release for our >>>>> >>>>> > > > >>>>>active matrix demo kit went out today. You can read more about it at: >>>>>http://www.eink.com/kits >>>>> >>>>>Here is an article at linuxdevices about it: >>>>>http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9257262400.html >>>>> >>>>>There is a gumstix in the demo kit :) >>>>> >>>>>-Holly >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>This SF.Net email is sponsored by: >>>>>Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, >>>>> >>>>> >discussions, > > >>>>>and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl >>>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>>gumstix-users mailing list >>>>>gum...@li... >>>>>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>------------------------------------------------------- >>>>This SF.Net email is sponsored by: >>>>Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, >>>>and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>gumstix-users mailing list >>>>gum...@li... >>>>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users >>>> >>>> >>>>------------------------------------------------------- >>>>This SF.Net email is sponsored by: >>>>Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, >>>>and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>gumstix-users mailing list >>>>gum...@li... >>>>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>>------------------------------------------------------- >>>This SF.Net email is sponsored by: >>>Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, >>>and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl >>>_______________________________________________ >>>gumstix-users mailing list >>>gum...@li... >>>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by: >Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, >and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl >_______________________________________________ >gumstix-users mailing list >gum...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users > > > > > |