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An open-source hardware soldering station
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Display fancy graphics in colour #15

Closed robot-army closed 8 years ago

Gavatastic commented 8 years ago

compatible with a range of displays (to avoid obsolescence if screen component no longer available) [if Arduino based, something like Adafruit's GFX library?]

daubers commented 8 years ago

How about http://www.adafruit.com/products/358

robot-army commented 8 years ago

Should we steer away from specific details of implementation for the moment? What's good about that specific part? Let's capture those good bits in requirements, and figure out how to implement them in the design stage of the project yeah?

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Matthew Daubney notifications@github.com wrote:

How about http://www.adafruit.com/products/358

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Remulos commented 8 years ago

In that case one of the requirements for the display, as well as the rest of the device, needs to be the simplicity of it's programming. If the main target market is hobbyists and hackspaces then hack-ability is a requirements and some obsucre display which requires an equally obscure driver isn't ideal. Something like the Adafruit library is accesable to all and already comes with loads of online reseources.

robot-army commented 8 years ago

Yep, happy with that additional requirement. I'm sure whatever we end up choosing won't be esoteric... we do want to be able to make this work, after all!

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Remulos notifications@github.com wrote:

In that case one of the requirements for the display, as well as the rest of the device, needs to be the simplicity of it's programming. If the main target market is hobbyists and hackspaces then hack-ability is a requirements and some obsucre display which requires an equally obscure driver isn't ideal. Something like the Library is accesable to all and already comes with loads of online reseources.

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