LCD Giveaway Update 2
Update (04/20/07): The original LCD modules are gone but we have new parts to give away! Read this post for more information.
The giveaway is going strong. I am down to just a few displays left so if your interested you better hurry. So many great websites have participated in this giveaway. There should be some great projects done by these hobbyist soon. I should have a links page with all the sites up soon. Thanks to all you who have participated in this experiment.
Although my original post limited the shipments to the US, I have been sending them international depending on the cost. There has only been one place that I could not send to as the cost was near $60 for shipping.
Stumble it!
February 4th, 2007 at 3:28 am
Wow, $60 for shipping!! That country is not looking for imports…
February 27th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Cool experiment! Hope I get one!
February 27th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Still have any more left to giveaway? If so I’d like to discover what I could do with one.
Thanks,
Bill
February 27th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
hey if there is any left, i think i have a project or two worth implementing the lcd into. i’d post pics as soon as its acomplished
February 27th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
not sure how this works but an lcd would be great for me! a “friend” stole my matrix orbital
February 28th, 2007 at 12:11 am
I would like one too! Have you any left?
February 28th, 2007 at 3:44 am
if you have anyone left, I’d gladly take on off your hands
February 28th, 2007 at 11:08 am
I would relly like one, but i live in belgium, how much would the shipping costs be??
March 1st, 2007 at 12:44 pm
If you have any left, i would really like one, because i have a lot of projects that could use a lcd display!
March 1st, 2007 at 8:55 pm
hey, where my lcd at? i want one too!
March 1st, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Yon,
I checked the cost and if I am reading it correctly it would cost between 4 and $10 to ship it to Belgium. I will pay this so assuming there are no surprises at the post office and you get your information to me in time. I have a limited supply of modules and have been flooded with request so don’t take too long.
March 2nd, 2007 at 4:17 am
is there still one display left?
i will be happy if i get one!
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:49 am
ok i’m ready, do you still have lcd’s??
March 3rd, 2007 at 10:29 pm
I’m working on a computer cooling that iI would like to put lcd into.just don’t have much of a budget, any left?
March 4th, 2007 at 6:36 am
gimme gimme gimme! I’ve got the perfect project just waiting for LCD interface!
March 5th, 2007 at 1:43 am
Yon,
Is Elektronica Stynus your site? Can you put a link to uC Hobby there?
Normally I planned to give the LCD to electronic site owners or bloggers. I can make an exception in your case because that may have not been clear enough in the orignal offer. This comment should serve to clairfy for future readers.
One thing to consider is wether or not this LCD will be of use to you? It does not have a simple controller interface. You have to feed it data very fast, at the scan rate. You would need to build a display controller. A 50 MHz ARM7 with at least 10K of RAM available for display memory should do the trick.
March 5th, 2007 at 5:55 am
Great! I am experimenting with Atmelcontrollers and an LCD is still missing. Any left yet?
March 5th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Hakan,
There are a few left. Read the orignal post for detial on how to get the display.
http://www.uchobby.com/index.php/2006/12/12/free-graphic-lcd/
March 14th, 2007 at 8:00 am
I got the LCD today and it looks great!
I can’t wait to hook it up to something.
-Yon
March 15th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
I got my LCD the other day and its looking cool, Im gonna see if I can interface it to an FTDI interface or something and have a USB LCD :p
April 1st, 2007 at 2:58 pm
has anyone had some succes yet with hooking it up to something??
-Yon
April 3rd, 2007 at 8:58 am
Received the LCD today…looks great. Just need to figure out how to use it.
Love to hear from others on their projects.
C. Flowers
April 4th, 2007 at 10:17 am
Hi, am I to late or just fasionally late to get one of the LCD’s you’re giving away? I’ve been wanting to build this printer cable LCD, link; http://www.overclockers.com.au/techstuff/a_diy_lcd/index.shtml I’ve got the programming software downloaded I’ve just been waiting to run across an LCD. Hope you can help me out and thank you.
G-MAN
April 6th, 2007 at 3:05 am
Greg,
Yes there are a few displays left but I do not think they are what your looking for. These display units requre a very fast interface as each pixel must be output at the full refresh rate.
Yon,
I accidently deleted your comment with a web site link meant for Greg. I hope you can repost it.
April 7th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
I am in Advanced Electronics, a High School class of 3 and we do misc. projects like intefacing a robotic arm via a Printer Port and Visual Basic. I was wondering if you could give us an LCD to play with.
April 7th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
Hello. I was build an many interfacing LCD via paralel port + infrared support. But I just build with a 16×2 LCD screen because I don’t have enough money to buy the bigger LCD both character or graphical LCD. I hope you will give me an LCD. Thanks a lot.
here
you can find my example gallery LCD with LCDproc.
April 8th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
PriyayiSae: I would be happy to send you a LCD if you can make a link back to my site from yours but I’m not sure the display would be of much use to you. Read below.
Webcrawler42: I would be happy to give your class a LCD for your class projects. The LCD I am giving away may not be good for your class however. Read below.
The display we are giving away is difficult to interface with. It would not be possible to make it do much with a PC parallel interface. You would need a very fast uC like an ARM 7 with more then 10K of RAM.
April 8th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
hey! I’ve been looking for an LCD to start doing various types of learning with them. I am planning on making my Dorm Room autonomous seeing that I am going to do a double major in Robotics and Applied Math.
College is expensive though, so this would be a great start to a really fun project. Don’t worry- I will share with my roommate(kind of!)
Think you can help me out???
April 8th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
dfowler: I would still like to try, our teacher is an EECS major and we have some funds and about 2 months with virtually no projects lined up.
April 15th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Webcrawler how about writing up an article about a recent project or other posible ideas. Read this post for an alternate way to get the free LCD.
http://www.uchobby.com/index.php/2007/04/14/hobby-parts-for-articles/
April 20th, 2007 at 2:13 am
Update (04/20/07): The original LCD modules are gone but we have new parts to give away! Read this post for more information.