Ipod Nano 6 LCD hack part 3

[@randomelectronicsanddispla1765]

The range of acceptable clock rate is great. That makes it very versatile to use in projects

[@gamccoy]

From scope chasing to assembled board in a short time. You are very talented. I especially like how you detailed using the video frames to embed control codes -- quite elegant, that.

[@artifactingreality]

cant wait to see 100 of these things playing whatever it is your guys have planned

[@smling11]

Mike now you get people watching the hack hooked, you ought to complete it selling the kits. It may not be profitable to you, but owning one of your artifiact and going through the steps you listed shall be very satisfying and educational.

[@gerrysweeney]

Thats real fast development Mike, very nice.

[@mikeselectricstuff]

Probably SPI flash + cheap cortex M0 MCU or CPLD, and software flyback converter for backlight supply.

[@mikeselectricstuff]

Anything's possible given the time and budget... You could drive it from USB via a FT232H pretty easily if you could write the PC-side drivers. VGA etc. would be doable but may get a bit expensive

[@mikeselectricstuff]

Absolutely, however dealing with the flex cables would get messy after about 4 connectors on the same side of the PCB. I keep picturing a cube...

[@olivercoles87]

Can't wait to see the finished project!

[@ronaldlijs]

Very nice, very nice, I didn't notice you've got Jeri there as well... Well done thanks for sharing!!!!!

[@hardwareful]

I'd love to see a versatile SPI controllable display module. Maybe you can even get more people to play around with FPGAs.

[@paulbendel]

Can't wait for part 4!

[@MetalPhreakAU]

At the top above the FPGA? That's the flex cable and connector for the LCD.

[@Mr.Laidukas]

Impressive, custom PCB for this project so fast!! Great work. Love your videos!

[@douro20]

I wonder why there's a piece of tape covering the serial flash chip...is it a bare die?

[@francistheodorecatte]

that's Photonicinduction's washing machine, the original original washing machine destruction.

[@wei249]

How do you manage to do this stuff so quickly? A while ago you were scraping solder resist off a track, now you've got a dedicated FPGA board? I would have thought that the delivery time on boards and components would have taken longer than the time it took you to get here. so jealous...

[@mikeselectricstuff]

2 of course!

[@eried]

Really cool! What is the cheapest thing you can use to drive that screen with some still images? Will that beat iTeadStudio screens+atmega/msp430 for simple stuff?

[@mikeselectricstuff]

That depends on how much your client is prepared to pay for the PCBs..!

[@elboa8]

Always worth watching. Thank's Mike.

[@DIYTAO]

With so much extra IO:s, you could perhaps drive an array (say 2*2 or 3*3?) of those displays with an single Fpga? With pixel multiplication it could keep the flash data rate decent?

[@Razor2048]

Awesome video, wish there were more to watch. anyway, is it possible to get a display like that to take an external input, eg from a computer? eg using VGA or any other standard output, or a low cost way of running it through USB. Would be awesome to use a display like that to display random stats (frame rates, CPU usage, etc), and possibly also youtube videos while gaming, (kinda like the logitech G19 keyboard (ipod nano has a better screen than the G19 )

[@mfx1]

You obviously have clients with much better funding than me, although often half the fun is the challenge of trying to do as much as possible with a tiny budget (within reason).

[@pxidr]

Even Photonicinduction's washing machine is here! :)

[@Damicske]

Nice glitching @ the end, but its always the same width of the top and the bottom of did I missee it?

[@Quazzie78]

So when are you going to put those pcb's up for sale on your site?

[@Zachary55]

Love this series

[@TylerLarson]

What sort of chip or method does the iPod use to drive the display?

[@mikeselectricstuff]

Only 100..?

[@1marcelfilms]

would be nice on a pc case for like cpu temp or weather and traffic stuff

[@0redthunder0]

Where do you get your PCBs made Mike?

[@mikeselectricstuff]

Yes.

[@randohinn6691]

Will there ever be schematics of this?

[@Upsidedownorangejuice]

thanks for the correction

[@CxC2007]

Did you design that board ? how long does it took ? witch FPGA are you use to programm ?

[@ceilingcat6922]

what will these be used for? can you give us any details?

[@superdau]

I don't know what you see. There's no tape over the flash.

[@AttieGrande]

Very nice work! And in just half a month too :-)

[@RobertGallop]

Freakin awesome! Hard core hacking!

[@hulladek3]

@mikeselectricstuff what will u do with the 20 display? :D

[@mikeselectricstuff]

Yes. No.

[@RyanVasquez6089]

ITS DAVE!

[@Upsidedownorangejuice]

Both Aussie50's washing machine and dave lol

[@TheBananaPlug]

thats no mere girl, thats Jeri Ellsworth :-)

[@dorfschmidt4833]

Dave at 0:02 :D

[@unolisto]

and jeri!

[@hulladek3]

Make a smart watch from this!!!

[@MariaEngstrom]

lol! In the end, Daves face on a girls body. :]

[@aptsys]

oh jeez

[@davidbess7084]

He bad

[@fredlllll]

hey mike. be honest. how many cars could you buy each month from what you earn? :P with your qualification your wage must be high as fuck

[@tijssens]

i saw Jeri Ellsworth on the display! She is after all the electronics goddesse :). So you can basically clock it as low as you want. Could possibly be run by an mcu no? Learned a lot thanks! Here's a $1 tip, via *****