[sdiy] Re: OLED displays for a sequencer

[Jeff Farr]

crystalfontz has a nice selection of displays, pretty good prices too.

On 10/10/05, Tim Parkhurst <tim.parkhurst at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/10/05, Danjel van Tijn <syntheticdan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I should have said PLED..they are a lot cheaper.
> > Aslo I am looking for small dotmatrix and character displays (hopefully
> > hitachi comaptible)
> >
> > cheers,
> > Danjel
> >
> > On 10/10/05, Danjel van Tijn <syntheticdan at gmail.com > wrote:
> > >
> > > I am working on a MIDI step sequencer that is inspired by some Reaktor
> > > modules I have played with.
> > >
> > > The visual display and interface is key and I was thinking of
> > > incorporating some OLED LCD displays for displaying envelope, modualtion and
> > > other step related information.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of a place in Canada/US selling a range of OLED
> > > displays at a good price?
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > Danjel
> > >
> >
> >
>  A good place to look would be in a recent copy of "Nuts & Volts"
> magazine. All sorts of companies advertise in there, selling new and surplus
> displays. Another, admittedly very different aproach you might want to think
> about is to just use an old laptop with some sort of MIDI interface, or even
> build an analog interface into the parallel port. Now you've got a powerful
> processor, all sorts of memory (compared to a typical microcontroller), and
> a very large color display.
>   Tim (admittedly very different) Servo
> --
> "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
>
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