Collaborate Disseminate
Compared to most small LCDs sold to makers, smartphone screens boast excellent color, brightness, and insanely high resolution. Unfortunately, driving them is rarely straightforward. In an attempt to make it …read more Continue reading How To Drive Smartphone Screens Over HDMI
Since the Raspberry Pi arrived back in 2012, we’ve seen no end of interesting and creative designs for portable versions of the little computer. They often have problems in interfacing …read more Continue reading A Raspberry Pi Tablet, With A DSI Screen
[Mike Harrison] produces so much quality content that sometimes excellent material slips through the editorial cracks. This time we noticed that one such lost gem was [Mike]’s reverse engineering of the 6th generation iPod Nano display from 2013, as caught when the also prolific [Greg Davill] used one on a recent board. Despite the march of progress in mobile device displays, small screens which are easy to connect to hobbyist style devices are still typically fairly low quality. It’s easy to find fancier displays as salvage but interfacing with them electrically can be brutal, never mind the reverse engineering required …read more
Continue reading Putting an Out of Work iPod Display to Good Use
Deep Space Industries is an asteroid mining company without a mine—instead, it’s creating an entire industry. Continue reading How to Start an Asteroid Mining Company Without a Mine