Heh, I recently stumbled upon this: http://newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=28-999-601&depa=0 It's a 1.6" COLOR LCD screen, for epson printers, and it is only 25 dollars (free shipping) I don't think it'd be too hard to mod it, for some of you electricians out there... I'm not skilled enough myself.. plus I don't have 25 dollars, I just thought that this would be a good buy for some of you guys out there looking for a cheap color LCD! Edit: Anyways: If anyone actually does this, post here!
lol, its 80 on the epson sight...someone had to have messed up, i suggest ordering it soon incase its newegg. What you gonna do with a screen that small?
Heh, after searching the next cheapest one I found (On pricegrabber) was 55 bucks... Man if I had 25 dollars I'd buy this NOW >.< But yes, you're somewhat right... it is pretty small... but I think if you could find a program that scrolls multiple lines of text it'd be worth it... or maybe you could just use it as a digital-badge
find some way to make a slideshow? preivew pics on a compact flash card ( ) I GOT IT! make a prgram that has an eyeball spinning around and mount the lcd inside the case facing the window
All those ideas are pretty cool, but what bothers me is: how do you interface it to your graphics card? What type does it use? S-video, VGA or (most likely) something proprietary to the printer that simply won't talk to a graphics card?
true, but it might be like the psone screens and has a controller card built in, i doubt it though. Eitherway, if you buy it and don't want it anymore, you could prob. sell it for 30+ online, considering most sell it for a lot more then $25.
i have one of the printers that it connects to and it looks like an s-vid connector who knows if it will work with tv-out though
How many pins are we talking about. I have seen S-vid like connecters with 15 pins. How many pins does this thing have?
hmm, that looks very interesting. I just e-mailed Epson to try to get a datasheet for either the printer or the LCD. With that it would probably be possible to hack the connector into something usable. If it's possible to get an s-video or (even better) a VGA, the $25 would be a ridiculously cheap price for that LCD.
Heres some quick pics of the inerads. high res so 56k probably will hate me. If anyone finds any info on the controller share the wealth. http://frogbutt.crashhd.com/LCD/IMG_0546.JPG http://frogbutt.crashhd.com/LCD/IMG_0547.JPG http://frogbutt.crashhd.com/LCD/IMG_0551.JPG http://frogbutt.crashhd.com/LCD/IMG_0549.JPG above the HCMk-C2x there is a backwards LR (r) dont know what company it stands for though http://frogbutt.crashhd.com/LCD/IMG_0550.JPG http://frogbutt.crashhd.com/LCD/IMG_0553.JPG Elite MT M11L416256SA-35T dzc2hcsyg 0227 http://frogbutt.crashhd.com/LCD/IMG_0556.JPG http://frogbutt.crashhd.com/LCD/IMG_0557.JPG 10 wires (black,white,grey,purple,green,yellow,orange,red,brown,black) heres the LR logo http://frogbutt.crashhd.com/LCD/IMG_0558.JPG
I dunno...that kinda looks like a Mini-Din Serial Connection... FrogButt: Do you have the printer too? Could you probe the connections with a meter while it's hooked up?
Epson didn't want to send me back a datasheet. They just keep telling me to look at support.epson.com which is of course completely unhelpful
Sorry for the double post but, just thought of something else... A serial port is 9 pin. Do you guys think it's possible that it just uses a standard serial connector? You might be able to hack off that DIN-type connector and take it from what also looked to be a nine wire header in this pic: http://frogbutt.crashhd.com/LCD/IMG_0557.JPG You could use this to get the right correlation between serial port connection and the LCD. Maybe then you could just use some serial LCD software to control it? Speculation because I don't have one, or I'd try it. Of course, if I'm wrong and someone tries this I take no responsibility for a blown port/motherboard/LCD.
Post CLEAR pictures of all the ICs on the circuit board. The connector doesn't tell much about what type of signal the LCD is supposed to take. Until we know what ICs are involved, I wouldn't suggest buying this LCD out of blind hope.