Tiny RGB Screen?

joevennix · Post by **joevennix** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:40 pm

At a very low price!
RGB 1.5" LCD Screen
Too bad its so small, but it looks like it has ~okay~ quality.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:06 pm

$18 us for the screen. Man, that's cheap. Kinda small though, but that would probably make your portable a bit smaller.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:37 pm

Resolution 128 x 128

Although that is a screen, you guys need to learn to read bit more thoroughly. It's $20 USD for the SCREEN. It's $40 USD for the screen/mobo.

Although that IS extremely small if you ever needed it.

But in the end it costs as much as a PS1 screen. Maybe you could find one on ebay?

Mind you, that is one kickass screen.

We are now getting some strange questions from the masses. This is an add-on for micros, (including PC's) not a stand alone unit. If you can't program micro-controllers then you probably won't be able to use this device.

Dunno if that means anything to anyone.

Post by **gannon** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:19 pm

It means that the board uses the uC to create the digital rgb signal for the lcd. You'd have to program something that'd translate composite to that.

joevennix · Post by **joevennix** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:24 pm

Don't some consoles (NES, I think, correct me if I'm wrong) output RGB?

Post by **Gamelver** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:34 pm

original SNES does (and the mini, with modification).

the PS2 and Xbox do, and the GC can with some modification...but if you're gonna portablize one of the systems, I believe RGB on a 5" screen would be better than on a 1.5" one

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Post by **gannon** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:49 pm

As I said, digital rgb, it's not the same as analog rgb.

Post by **Gamelver** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:57 pm

well I didn't read YOUR post!!

...um, yeah, actually I didn't (well, I skimmed it, kind of).

looks like it's an unusable screen, for most here. Kevin Horton could obviously use it

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joevennix · Post by **joevennix** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:19 pm

Ah, didn't know there were different types of RGB. Too bad though, could have been a good item for another project.

Post by **marshallh** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:27 pm

Theoetically, you could program a PIC16f877 to accept analog RGB + Csync and output digital RGB. It however would have to do the heavyweight image cropping/resizing (I think this chip goes up to 40MHz?)

Nice find, I might hook up one of my numerous PICs to it someday.

Corscaria · Post by **Corscaria** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 7:15 pm

The LCD in a VG Pocket Max (Must be the Max version) is a 2.5" analog RGB LCD. I saw them for $35 2 weeks ago, but that might have still been after XMas sale price, the MSRP is $45. Search the forums to find a basic pinout, unfortunately I know little about it's signal requirements, as my test equipment is extremely limited.

Wayne Venomous · Post by **Wayne Venomous** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:13 pm

I've thought of an actual use for one of those screens!

I noticed my old camcorder has a 1 inch screen in the viewfinder and this is magnified through an eyepiece. So you could have a system that you look through an eyepiece to play. Or how about a game system you actually wear? The screen would have to be located in a central position in front of your eyes and you would have to have some well set up optics so you could see the screen without any double vision or maybe even use two screens?

Either way, it would need some sort of magnification. I would suspect a screen that size would be designed to be used with magnification so it doesn't show up lines etc.

Kyosho · Post by **Kyosho** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:35 pm

Wayne Venomous wrote:Either way, it would need some sort of magnification. I would suspect a screen that size would be designed to be used with magnification so it doesn't show up lines etc.

I think you're basically talking about VR LCD Headsets, are you not? Like this for example?

Wayne Venomous · Post by **Wayne Venomous** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:45 pm

Kyosho wrote:I think you're basically talking about VR LCD Headsets, are you not? Like this for example?

Man, I am so behind the times!

At the risk of sounding like a Honda TV ad - "By the time I'd thought of it, they'd built it"

It's one of those things that when I was at kid I'd imagined we'd all be using these by now!

Kyosho · Post by **Kyosho** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:26 pm

I remember first seeing them when I was in 7th grade and had a subscription to Popular Science. In the back, there was always ads for weird stuff. They had one of those for like $5000. Haha. Man, I miss Popular Science. Need to get another subscription.