With world supplies of the once ubiquitous Nokia display drying up, I’m looking for a replacement. These are perfect for ATmega projects, especially those used outside, as they are small enough to mount in a small Jiffy box, daylight readable, and have a smallish memory footprint.
The next nearest that I have found is a 128 x 64 LCD which is daylight readable, but physically much larger than the Nokia and requiring more than twice as much memory.
OLEDs are not bright enough to see in daylight and are (unexpectedly) polarised, so not readable with sunglasses on, and they have large memory footprints.
TFT’s? Not even close.
e-ink displays are too slow.
Has anyone come across a display as well suited to Arduino projects as the Nokia 5110 display?
Sorry I can't help but I think the chronic problem is that these things are designed by people who live in dark countries, and it sounds rather like you live in Australia.
I live in the UK and OLEDS\TFTs are indeed next to useless for outdoor use.
OpenSmart do two 128x64 LCDs, a 2.4” one that has no backlight and is well visable in direct sunlight and a 1.8” version that has a switchable backlight.
I don’t know. I haven’t died yet, so I’ll probably make another project that needs a display with the same or similar attributes. The point is that some time soon, someone will buy the last one, and I’ll need to find a replacement. Better to look now than then.
That's probably because you are too young. The Nokia 5110 display is the display made by Philips in the bazillions to go into the Nokia 5110 phone (the best phone ever made) before Google was invented.
THANK YOU, at 84 I love hearing I am young. I never owned a Nokia, 1st phone was a Sony, then an Android or two followed by an iPhone 6, then an iPhone 14. The Sony did have a similare looking screen, I think it was the first or one of that could do email and even the web but it was hopeless.
