Re: [NTLK] Color LCD

From: tfbiii_at_nbscomputers.net
Date: Mon Apr 01 2002 - 10:43:51 EST


You need to ask...?

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From: Laurent Daudelin [mailto:laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com]=20
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 10:40 AM
To: NewtonTalk
Subject: Re: [NTLK] Color LCD

On 01/04/02 09:24, "Humphreys, David" <david.humphreys_at_honeywell.com>
wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
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> I wanted to let you all know of a remarkable breakthrough
> I have discovered.
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> I was tinkering with spare LCD screen I have and I noticed that there=20
> are a number of option links on the flex board marked SW1,2,3 & 4.
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> They are currently open. So I mounted a small 4 pole switch on them=20
> and discovered that they control the LCD resolution and color!!
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> When I flipped all the switches on, the screen went blank for a moment

> and then reappeared @ 1280 x 960 !!!! in 16 colors!!!
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> The switches must change the scan frequency and the color is due to=20
> the rapid switching of the LCD pixels. (Much like the experiment with=20
> a rapidly rotating black and white disk that appears to be colored)
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> I will experiment further with this 4-pole, single throw (401 switch)=20
> and report back. ;)

Is this an April fool joke? If not, the icons and the text must be
incredibly small at 1280 x 960! But I would maybe like to have something
like 640 x 480!!!

-Laurent.
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