If you have used the TFT LCD in your project, no matter the 8/16bit parallel port LCD or the SPI serial LCD, you need a huge GUI display library in your MCU code. If there is more than 10 pages in your project, the GUI coding will be a hell job!
It's the reason why we make this new TFT LCD module with GPU. You don't need to care about the GUI coding, you can use the WYSIWYG editor to build your GUI ,and download them into the GPU memory - than you can use the MCU to send command via UART to control the TFT LCD now. All build in objet can be control by UART command.
It saves your time to code the GUI, and you don't need spend much resource of your MCU to do the display control. Its price is nearly the same as the normal TFT LCD.
We just finished the 2.4" and 4"3 LCD, our goal is to make the size from 1.8" to 9" [1.8,2.4,2.8,3.2,4.3,5.0,7.0,9.0], and not just support resistive tp but also multi-touch capacitive tp.
We need to improve the software make it can work in MAC and linux, and build the components store for users to share and download a lot of read-made components.
We just want to test our new board , and choose the openbenchmarking, then we found that there is a RPI marking record, so we compare our Iteaduino Plus with it ~
[quote author="megabug"]Yes, thats a very interesting board, cant wait to get mine! Got it as an early bird. :) Should have bought a couple more, thou. But one is okay for the moment. Got the acrylic "case" too!
Cant wait to play around. :D[/quote] if we can reach our goal, there may be more surprised gadget: pry stick, Heatsink, Micro-sd card reader, free PCB coupon for baseboard design, etc...
[quote author="oakkar7"]competitor with pcDuino :D but interesting, its compatible with most itead boards. BTW, how is the target price? if all features are the same, the prices and community support will decide who is the winner. Good job and Good luck also.[/quote]
competitor with pcDuino - we offer the eagle file for ITEAD CORE (http://http://blog.iteadstudio.com/itead-core-eagle-library/), and everyone can build his own baseboard , even the basebaord like DUOO ~ we provide the ITEAD OS SDK for users to driver all ITEAD modules and shields without low-layer driver coding.
[quote author="Sleepwalker3"]Maybe you could get away from the ...duino type name. Perhaps an Itead-Pi? Itead-ARM? However I don't think an ARM-PIT (ARM Pi Itead) would go down quite so well![/quote] Iteaduino just the baseboard name, and we hope the final system will compatible with arduino use - you can find how to use the GPIO and UART like arduino here: http://blog.iteadstudio.com/itead-os-gp ... tion-demo/
For the new baseboard, we will consider to get away from ...duino type : )
I have disappeared for six months on the network because of this project. Before, I used to use Arduino for most of my project, until I try the first project with RPI, and I fall in love with the Linux and this cute board, so I decide to build another one like RPI , but should more easy-to-learn and easy-to-use, so it take me half of a year to make it out - not just the hardware but also a SDK on Linux, we call this customized Ubuntu :ITEAD OS , my goal is that it will as esay-to-use as arduino , and it will have more interface on board than RPI , easier to connect to sensors or other modules, even the arduino shield.
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Now we have the prototype, and i have put it in indiegogo , take a moment to check it out on Indiegogo and also share it with your friends. All the tools are there. Get perks, make a contribution, or simply follow updates. If enough of us get behind it, we can make 'Iteaduio Plus - ARM Cortex-A8 Dev-Platform' happen! http://http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/498035/emal/4283045
It's interesting to know that the factory switched to 100% etest, I noticed that a while ago too.[/quote] Now the factory do 100% e-test for all orders, and before that , we do the rest 50% e-test ourselves. So, please believe that we DO did 100% test for your boards, but for the issue of Greeeg, it may be a negligence that workers in the factory have not test it - as to why, we can not find out, but just can say that we are so sorry about this issue, and we will try our best to avoid this errors, but as long as human intervention,negligence is inevitable.
We know that there should still be many people not satisfied with this answer, so we are contacting with the factory ,and try to persuade them to make a video to show you how we do the e-test.
Sorry for such late reply about this issue, we work as mad man these 2 months for the new iMallstore, so I forget to reply this post, now the imall has finished and online, I can spend some time to give you a detailed reply about it. 1 - As show in the image, boards are not be tested. 2 - We DO did 100% e-test for all orders.
At first, the PCB factory do the 50% e-test, and when we get the board, we do the rest 50%. But now, the factory provide the 100% e-test for all order - not just us, but also seeed. Now all the "e-test" process is done by factory, and all boards we got ,should be a e-tested one.
How do Greeeg get the non-tested boards? We have contacted with factory on February, but the factory can not give us the detailed reply - because these boards was made near before Chinese New Year, and in that period, there are many orders but labor shortage and staff mobility, the factory said there should be some negligence to cause the non-tested issue, but they can not find out who did this because there should half of the workers changed after the China New Year holiday. The factory is willing to re-do it again with e-tested.
This statement that "they not do the e-test to save the cost" is not right. For prototyping, 100% e-tested or non-tested, even the 50% e-test, they are the same price for us. Just for small batches , like 200-500pcs, the factory will charge the test fee. For prototyping, just 10 pcs, factory now doesn't charge any test fee.
Anyway, I think it should be our our responsibility and we should responsible for this. But it's a issue of management and process, not about integrity. We guarantee the 100% e-tested , so we request the factory to do so. But there should be something that out of our control, like maybe some negligence and errors, we will try our best to handle it, and hope your understanding.
We have made more than Ten thousand prototype orders out, and there could be some error, like missing e-tested, hard to Welding because of the pad oxidation .etc, but it just be a few part of all, we will try to avoid, but this is difficult to avoid all. So , when you meet this trouble, just feel free to contact us directly ,and we will deal with these issues.
Maybe we could start a poll about how many people meet the non-etested problem , 1/100 or 1/10000? then we can get more data to talk with the factory for their test process.
[quote author="Zeta"]xmas gift on november ? this gotta be the best year ever :)[/quote] Now is the busy season of International delivery, it may take about 2-3 weeks for shipping , so now we ship out the gift , you can get it near the X-mas : )
[quote author="arupbsk"]@alex, If you're any of itead's official person, then please take my suggesion. Please add a payment gateway which is VBV or MSC secure metchant. Otherwise whenever I try to pay payment gets blocked by bank and I get SMS from bank that the transaction was declined for security reasons. My bank officials say my cards can only be used in secure merchant sites, and not those sites which are not secure and charges cards directly. This is for my account security. FYI, if I try to use my mastercard in any secure site, after I enter card details, CVV then the payment page redirects to my bank's website where I have to enter a securecode to authorize the transaction by verifying the chargable amount to my account. This way fraud websites can't make illegal use of my card's details because they won't have my securecode. Hence, please add a secure payment processing option.[/quote] @arupbsk Thanks for your kind suggestion, we will do this as soon as possible.
[quote author="BrentBXR"]Sweet :) I cant wait. I have been meaning to use iTead for a while now (I really want to try my hand at making PCBs, iTead makes it so affordable, its like why etch it yourself anymore?).
I wonder what the surprise is![/quote]
No, we use the machine to do it, maybe we should show you our factory - you will see this post soon.
To thank you for your support, we carefully prepared a number of Christmas gifts for you. Now, many free mystery gifts are waiting for you! Follow us on twitteror Facebook, RT the tweet, we will ship you a Mystery gift : ) As for what gift, I think many guys here should like it. But now it still a secret, we hope it can bring you a surprise.
[quote author="MickM"]Alex; When you get a free pcb, do you get the docs for it too?
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As arhi point out, you just get the 2 free pcb which take from other PCB prototyping order, so we don't have the docs, even not guarantee it can work : )
