Re-purposing an LCD from a cheap picture-frame key chain

Here is a hack to extract, and use the LCD from a cheap picture-frame key chain. The project involved desoldering the LCD from its mainboard and building a breakout for it. With the help of a DSO it was possible to find out the pin-out for the LCD.

The AVR library used to drive this LCD is available for download at the bottom of the source article. You can check out a video of this project below.

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3 Comments

  1. Jumps… JUMPS! Oh right… next time I will be waaay more careful ;o) Although, in fairness, the library code definitely provides an ‘s’ along with 254 other ASCII characters.

  2. Cool :o)
    It might be all the same protocole for all clones on ebay too.
    it looks really good for the price !

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