> 320 x 240 Resolution Aside from the fact that's for an arduino, which probably mean very low power available, does anybody knows why all those hobbyist LCD are so low in term of resolution? It seem impossible to find something higher than VGA on mouser or even Alibaba, much less a reasonably priced HD screen. Where are all those glorious smartphone screen? (I'm talking about small screen, but even larger one are no…
Well, you'll find the glorious smartphone screens are sold as replacement screens for smartphones. But of course, smartphones tend to have an LCD controller on the SoC, so you just get a raw LCD parallel interface. That means the LCD has a tiny connector with dozens of wires. Hobbyists are often enough scared of soldering SMD parts, they won't try to solder that .4mm pitch connector. Then you realise that even for 80…
That's something I wondered, taking a smartphone screen, but it seem pretty daunting, indeed. Such a shame in a way.