Shopping !!!

I promised myself to update the blog at least once a week...

Well, I could not resist after one day :-P.

The thing that I went to Akihabara this morning
to buy two LCD screens. Really cheap one !
300 Yen (roughly less than 2 euro) for a 400x96 pixel
RGB 666 display.

(If you have read the previous article,
things should start to make sense to you)

Actually I had to buy a lot of other stuff too and
ended spending like 8000 yens. Anyway, here is
the information you can find about those LCD screens
(page is in japanese)


The thing is that the connector is a 0.5mm pitch w/ 36 pins.
That is the kind of stuff that requires to be
a true masochist to connect...

I found by miracle the following flexicable,
that ALSO perform the conversion to more "hobby" standard
connectors. (770 yen per piece)

The cool stuff about this is that you can take a cutter
and adapt it to your size. That is REALLY smart and
avoid the hassle of :

- Messing directly with the LCD connector
by soldering directly with thin wires.
or
- By a normal flexicable
-> connector on the other side
-> solder the connector
-> etc...


Cut, solder the other part with standard pitch, FINISHED.

Here is the picture of this gift from the gods :