Sharp Memory LCD

Like a cross between eink and traditional LCDs. Very high contrast monochrome, very low power, but with a fast (up ot 60Hz) refresh.

http://www.sharpmemorylcd.com/1-28-inch-memory-lcd.html



The first challenge is the 0.5mm pitch on the connector, in the end an appropriate QFP breakout board was the easiest. Coupled with an FPC, all be it with too many contacts, this still proved reliable.

I had a STM32F4-Discovery kindly donated by RS to Rlab which is ideal for driving this screen to the max. The main attraction of the screen is the ease of programming it over SPI. In fact I ended up spending more time generating the 60Hz PWM signal it also needs. I chose to implement the Adafruit-GFX-Library as this gave me the basic vectors, text, and bitmaps I was after.

Source: git clone https://zi.is/c/MemoryLCD