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   snigelen
   Member

   Hello,

   I've started a library for the pcd8544 "graphic" lcd controller that is used in Nokia 3310, 5110 and others. It's used most as a text display since you can't read the pcd8544 memory or address individual pixels.

   It should work without modifications on both Arduino and the Maple.
   Currently only hardware SPI is supported, but I will add support for software SPI soon.

   You can get it at github.

   Tested on Arduino Duemillanove, Maple rev.3 and Sparkfun's Graphic LCD 84x48 - Nokia 5110.

   Posted 4 years ago #
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   poslathian
   LeafLabs

   Just bought one of these to play with the new lib! Thanks!

   I dont have any 'official' word about how we are going to start folding user libs into the mainline release, other than to say we definitely intend to do this.

   Posted 4 years ago #
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   snigelen
   Member

   Hi,

   Feel free to use it in your main release if you think it's usable.
   Since the display is 3.3V it's suitable for the Maple and easier to use than HD4478 and similar.

   By the way, I mixed up the MOSI and SCLK pins in all comments and the README, sorry for the confusion if anyone have tried it out. It's fixed now.

   And (therefore) soft SPI will work too now. But it uses the (really slow) shiftOut.
   For hardware SPI the SCLK is 4.5 MHz on the Maple and 4MHz on Arduino. For soft SPI it's
   about 534kHz on Maple and 66kHz(!) on Arduino.

   Posted 4 years ago #
4. 

   mbolivar
   LeafLabs

   Hi snigelen,

   Thanks for using github; it'll make it a lot easier for us to redistribute. We ideally would like user-contributed libraries to be hosted on github so that we can just include them under libraries/ in libmaple as git submodules:

   http://book.git-scm.com/5_submodules.html

   So here's our proposal: when we release an IDE version, we'll pull your master into our submodule copy of your repo. Sound good?

   Posted 4 years ago #
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   snigelen
   Member

   That's fine with me. Do whatever is best for you.
   The submodule concept sounds good (I'm new to git, but i have used svn, cvs (and rcs)).

   Posted 4 years ago #

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