Post #4237418
2026-07-30 01:00 UTC
Come to the dark side. Join us. We have chocolate.
Also blood. Chocolate and blood.
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More seriously, I fear these sorts of application-specific displays are going to go the way of the dodo. It's gotten to the point where a reasonably large pixel-mapped display is, to a first approximation, free. Slap one of those on top of your MCU board and you're done - no designing a custom panel, laying out LEDs, multipin connectors to run all the LEDs... and the actual usability of the things will probably tank, because then the display is "just software", and we know how excellent white goods makers are at software...
#electronics #display #ApplicationSpecific #TaskSpecific #appliance #LED #hobby #chocolate #blood #DarkSide.
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social 2026-07-30 02:36
@cazabon@mindly.social I appreciate a purpose-built display for a purpose-built interface. An LCD panel emulating a VFD display (for example) never looks right, either. (The photograph is of my CD player, built in 1990.)