Lu Ban's axe and working with your Chinese suppliers

Post by ptorrone » Mon, Sep 04, 2017, 2:58 AM UTC

Yuffster wrote: post #161

ptorrone wrote: post #147

for some context. the "community" on hacker news has said limor (ladyada) fried is not a "real engineer" or she has help and doesn't really do engineering, or she is not a real person, or she is just a marketer, or it's not really her code, amongst other attacks anytime her work appears here on hacker news. the same attacks on hacker news on naomi wu have been said to other women who make things, share their projects…

HN isn't always hostile to women. The last time I made the front page under my real name,[0] I got a very encouraging comment about how it was nice that I had just started programming and was already thinking of hard problems. Thankfully, it's simple enough to add an nginx rule to bounce anyone from news.ycombinator.com right back to where they came from. -- [0] For some reason HN comments are much more respectful wh…

Post by exikyut » Tue, Sep 05, 2017, 11:32 PM UTC

new299 wrote: post #159

exikyut wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm. When you say "talks to the LCD directly", there's still a tiny low-level controller attached to the LCD, right? While highly nonstandard, but I want to see how feasible it is to truly drive an LCD directly. To me that sounds like a) huge pin count, b) "fun" prototyping costs, and c) difficult conversations with manufacturers who don't want to explain how their controllers work (and I guess d) a lot of work on my…

> Hmm. When you say "talks to the LCD directly", there's still a tiny low-level controller attached to the LCD, right? There's a chip on the FPCB bonded to the LCD matrix. > While highly nonstandard, but I want to see how feasible it is to truly drive an LCD directly. I guess you'd probably need to use an FPGA to do that. I can't see an advantage to doing this (there might be one, but I can't see it).