Description E-Ink (Electronic Ink) displays are commonly used in low powered applications and mimic the appearance of print on paper. They are widely used for the paper-like displays used in e-readers, and now are easy to use with Parallax P2 microcontroller projects too. This video shows how to connect together the parts required to run […]
Description Using the P2 Simple Video Driver, we show you how to create a complete video display project based around the theme of Solar Panel Monitoring. The P2 microcontroller can drive multiple video formats directly and is ideal for displaying real-time information from multiple sources on small or large displays. The source code included is […]
Description The P2 Simple Video Driver can include bitmap images to enhance your video display. With this guide, we demonstrate creating, saving, and importing the image into your code. The bitmap image format is important, and to keep your image file sizes as small as possible. So always save in 8-bit bitmap format, and keep […]
Description The Propeller 2 can output video directly, including HDMI, DVI, VGA, Composite, Component (Y, Cr, Cb) & S-VIDEO. This is the first of a three-part series that shows how to display characters, and images, and how to mix them together. With this guide, we demonstrate the hardware you need to output HDMI/DVI or VGA. […]
Twitter: @joegrandYouTube: www.youtube.com/c/JoeGrandWeb: www.grandideastudio.com As an electronics hobbyist and aspiring engineer in the late 1990s, I looked forward to seeing the Parallax advertisements on the back cover of Nuts & Volts every month. It was a dream of mine to have them sell one of my yet-to-be-designed products. In 2003, I created the Emic Text-to-Speech […]
