Metal Frames for our capacitive touchscreen 7 and 10 inch LCDs are in stock!

The popular LCD7-METAL-FRAME and LCD10-METAL-FRAME are made for resistive touch panel LCD-OLinuXino-7TS and LCD-OLinuXino-10TS LCDs.

Our LCD-OLinuXino-7CTS and LCD-OLinuXino-10CTS couldn’t be used with the metal frames as their touch panel area is different from that of the resistive touch panels.

These metal frames are made for very looking industrial panels and we had many requests to release a new design which could fit the capacitive touch screens LCDs.

It took some time, but now we are happy to announce that we already have stock of new metal frame versions, which match the capacitive displays: LCD7CTS-METAL-FRAME and LCD10CTS-METAL-FRAME.

LCD-OLinuXino selection guide updated with LCD dimensions

The LCD-OLinuXino Selection guide now includes the LCD panel dimensions and thickness information.

ESP32-ADF Internet Radio example now uses LoBo with 2.8″ TFT LCD and touch screen

 

The Internet Radio demo for ESP32-ADF now includes MOD-LCD2.8RTP and LoBo for UI. Updated version is uploaded on GitHub.

How to choose best LCD for your Linux computer? This is why we made LCD-OLinuXino selection guide

LCD-OLinuXino selection guide will help you to select best solution for your OLinuXino Linux SBC.

Inside we explain the different LCD connectors available in OLinuXino.

What LCD variants are available: 4.3″, 5″, 7″, 10.1″, 15.6″.

What signals are there when the interface is RGB or LVDS on the 40 pin connector.

How we implement plug and play capability with our latest Linux images and LCD driver boards, so you do not have to configure the LCDs, but they are recognized at boot time and all drivers configured.

What are the pro and cons and differences between resistive and capacitive touch screen technologies.

How to enable digital touch interface on A20 boards.

How to configure the software and drivers for the older LCD driver boards.

 

 

NES emulator on ESP32-POE + MOD-LCD2.8RTP

 

ESP32 NES emulator allows you to run your old games on ESP32. We modified it to work with MOD-LCD2.8RTP which has touch panel so you can use it as NES controller:

The modifications are included in SOFTWARE section of ESP32-POE but the example will work with any of our other ESP32 boards which has UEXT, like ESP32-EVB and upcoming ESP32-POE-ISO.

Here is video for ESP32 NESEMU in action:

Next step is to add UEXTx5 and connect MOD-Wii-UEXT-NUNCHUCK as controller.

New Open Source Hardware Color TFT LCD Display 320*240 pixels with Touch panel module for direct connection to ESP32-EVB via UEXT

MOD-LCD2.8″RTP is Color TFT LCD 320*240 pixel resolution with touch panel and connects directly to ESP32-EVB via UEXT connector with cable.

Now you can add fancy UI to your IoT projects!

 

TERES-I has patch and can work with both LCD and HDMI together

This picture was sent by Roman Beránek from Prusa Research.

He is using two displays one LCD and another HDMI with different resolution.

His patch is being reviewing now.

We also are working on this dual display use for some time, but we want to may dynamically switch between LCD and HDMI so TERES-I can work with projectors, we are close to release it in new image.

A13-SOM-512 Android image for 4.3″ LCD with touchscreen released

We got request from customer for Android image which supports 4.3″ LCD with touchscreen. He did his development with Beagle Bone, but wanted to optimize the cost for production so A13-SOM512 price was very attractive, but default Allwinner Android image although allow you to define smaller LCD resolutions has no working touchscreen calibration for small LCDs, also default Android screen was not set well and status bar was taking big portion of the screen.

Here is the newly released SD-card image for A13-SOM512 Android with 4.3″ LCD with touchscreen display.

Now you can develop your embedded Andoid application on low cost board with small LCD.

ESP32-WROVER-KIT is back in stock

The popular ESP32-WROVER-KIT is back in stock!

 

EDIT: The new batch has ESP32-WROVER module on it:

Instead of CH340 USB to Serial now it have FT2232HL wich implements two Serial channels one for programming one for debugging.

Also as these were assembled end of May they contain WROVER modules with 4MB of RAM and ESP32 chip REV.1.

 

Metal Frame Box for OLinuXino LIME with 7″ LCD is now in stock

The LCD 7″ Metal Frame Box is now in stock. We offer it only in black color.

Inside the frame there is space to assembly A10 or A20 OLinuXino LIME or LIME2:

All connectors of LIME are exposed on two sides on the frame box:

and from other side:

Four M4x8 screws hold together the two parts of the LCD frame, the same can be used to attach the frame to any flat surface.

The LCD assembly is easy to do but involves making frame of dual adhesive tape around the LCD to keep the glass off contact with the metal and to attach the touchscreen if necessary.

We offer this assembly as separate service if one do not want to make it himself. Here is the link for the assembly service – it’s orderable item in the web shop.

Please note that before you add LCD7-ASSEMBLY to your order you also have ordered these items: A10 or A20 OLinuXino LIME or LIME2, LCD-OLinuXino-7 or LCD-OLinuXino-7TS, LCD7-METAL-FRAME and CABLE-40-40-10CM otherwise we can’t do the assembly 🙂

The next logical step is to make Industrial panel. For this purpose we need LIME or LIME2 in industrial temperature grade.

A10/A20 qualify for industrial temperature grade, we also have all other components in this temperature range including the DDR3 memory, but two components preventing us to complete this job: NAND Flash and Ethernet PHY.

We work to solve this and in couple of months we may have in our web shop complete industrial panel solution with LCD, LIME etc in Industrial temperature grade -45+85C .