{"id":17,"date":"2013-03-12T09:17:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T09:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/giggingarduino.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/12\/2013312user-interface-idea-three-final-ish"},"modified":"2013-03-12T09:17:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T09:17:25","slug":"2013312user-interface-idea-three-final-ish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrgadget.nexus\/giggingarduino\/2013\/03\/12\/2013312user-interface-idea-three-final-ish\/","title":{"rendered":"User Interface, Idea Three, Final (ish)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some form of sanity prevailed and I decided that if I wanted to go with a graphical display then I should, at least for my first Arduino project, go with something with an already existing library.<\/p>\n

I noted two libraries, one seemingly mainly supporting a KS0108 controller, and another, called u8glib<\/a> supporting that and a few more types besides, though not being hugely conversant with these things maybe they’re “compatible”.<\/p>\n

So I went to the RS site, and filtered the displays by all the controllers that appeared on the compatible listing, and after consideration settled on this 160×104 display<\/a>, and an amber backlight<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I also decided to get some solid core “hook up wire”. This seemed expensive at RS, mainly because it looked like it was in HUGE lengths. So I looked at my usual “fallback” supplier, Amazon.co.uk, and found there were cheap supplies of solid 22 AWG wire<\/a>. I did have the problem of which colour or colours to choose. In the end I didn’t choose and bought them all as they were relatively cheap.<\/p>\n

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There is one wrinkle, after placing the order for the LCD display and backlight I was further reading the tech sheet, and noticed there was a touch screen optional extra. At the time of writing I’ve not ordered one, as I’m trying to decide whether to go down that route, or using a range of buttons.<\/p>\n

Almost there with the “major” components.<\/p>\n

B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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