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Breakout boards / Re: Re: What breakout do you need/want?
No problem, it's perfectly understandable (I run a public wiki on an automotive topic, and dealing with spam is a mess). It looks like it's going to let me post links below, so I think I'm out of the woods. :)
[quote author="ian"]This shouldn't be a problem, and is something we could make quite quickly. How would you envision the board? Just a LCD-sized PCB with pin breakouts? Or more a complete thing like SparkFun has with a power supply for the back light too?[/quote]
I'd honestly be ecstatic with something as simple as this, perhaps with a PCB sized to carry the screen (or not, I just don't want to solder those connectors *grin*):
http://http://elektronicaonderdelen.eu/productAfbeeldingen/1488.jpg
http://http://elektronicaonderdelen.eu/productAfbeeldingen/1487.jpg
(That's what I was going to link to originally.) The Sparkfun board is quite a bit more than what I was looking for; I don't need buttons or status LEDs, and the footprint is much larger than the space I'd like to fit it in.
(What I'd really love is a color OLED display in roughly the same footprint, but Sparkfun seems to think people want to build a mobile phone out of it, given the size of their carrier board...).
I wouldn't complain about a backlight driver, 3v3 regulation, and hey, why not even 5V logic shifting on-board, as long as it all tucks behind the screen. But, that's all a luxury for me. :)
[quote author="ian"]We actually have a Nokia LCD backpack coming out very soon, but it has a PIC to provide USB control and isn't a breakout:[/quote]
Yep, this is much more than what I was looking for, but the footprint is very close to what I had in mind.