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Re: Can you drive a Kopin display from a Basic stamp?

From: (Edward Keyes)
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 00:10:05 -0400

>I've been following the discussion of driver hardware.  Forgive my
>ignorance of electronics, but is there any reason you can't drive a
>CyberDisplay from the digital I/O lines on a Basic stamp or one of the
>embedded Forth boards? I guess it would be more like a terminal,
>because it would have to connect to the wearable via serial (or
>something such) AND you'd have to write your own software on the PC
>side to do anything interesting, but it'd be low power and cheap. Is
>it possible? Is it practical?

Unfortunately the Cyberdisplay is not a digital device.  It needs
relatively weird analog video signals and several different drive
and reference voltages.

So, while it might be theoretically possible to *include* a PIC
or something like that in a driver board (assuming you can find one
to run past the needed 20 MHz pixel clock), you'd have to bolt so
much extra circuitry on to it that you might as well just start
from scratch and pick your favorite microcontroller chip.

- Edward Keyes
  

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