Hello!
(I hope this is the right place on the forum to post this)... I just ran off 10 TouchShields if anyone's interested. It's an OLED touchscreen shield (with 16 megs of video ram). You toss it on top of an Arduino, and program it with the Arduino IDE (by installing a new core).
I'd love to get feedback on it, and suggestions! If there's interest, you can also pick one up over at www.liquidware.com for $109.
Here's a video of someone using one
-Matt (www.liquidware.org)
Impressive.
You guys should check out their other products, too: double-wide shields, double long shields, and a battery pack.
Very cool. I don't know exactly how I would use a little OLED touchscreen, It would be cool to control my blinds project with it. $109 is steep because Im a poor college student but I bet its because the OLED screens are expensive. I saw a Sony OLED 11" monitor that was running cable that looked better than Blueray at Apt (local electronics warehouse/store) and it was going for $2500+ It was sooo thin, the powersupply and stand were bigger than it. Keep up the good work.
Thanks a lot... Plain LCDs are a little cheaper than OLEDs, but you know what they say, once you go OLED, you never go back(lit) 
The OLED is a lot brighter than you'd expect, and the contrast ratio is very sharp, so it looks like shapes and text are just sitting on top of the screen. That way, you don't need to stuff a traditional backlight in back, so you save on power too.
Thanks a lot... Plain LCDs are a little cheaper than OLEDs, but you know what they say, once you go OLED, you never go back(lit)
The OLED is a lot brighter than you'd expect, and the contrast ratio is very sharp, so it looks like shapes and text are just sitting on top of the screen. That way, you don't need to stuff a traditional backlight in back, so you save on power too.
hmm sounds good
Hi,
the touchshield looks great! I was under the impression that OLED technology was sort of abandoned (probably because osram discontinued their product range). Is that true or is it just not fully developed yet? I was looking for OLEDs for a steering wheel application recently, but couldn't find any products with a large enough visible area.
regards,
Till
Are these still avaliable, I think I will soon purchase one, so as far as I can tell you can just draw circles, rects, lines etc. Is there any way to get it to display VGA or that would take lots of work. Sorry for the newb question.
You bet! I was actually sold out of them for a few weeks, because I had no idea so many people wanted one. Believe it or not, I was hand-soldering them all myself (crazy).
Anyway, I just got a new batch of them in, and this time there are two changes: 1) they are professionally assembled and soldered by a real company, so I could use smaller, slimmer parts and lay out the board much tighter (not to mention they look "professional"), and 2) the boards are blacked out, in "Stealth" mode (since so many people emailed me saying the black looked the best)
They're for sale over at Digital Workspace Management - Liquidware. And the write-up for how to use them is posted all over http://antipastohw.blogspot.com/.
Enjoy!
Is there any way to get it to display VGA or that would take lots of work
The display is 128x128 pixels and can display 24-bit color.
Uploading images
For a small display, the colors come out pretty sharp..
Mike did a writeup on his image uploader app here
This definitely gets the coolest application written for the TouchShield award ... from Josh at Twilight Edge:
Source code is available here: http://www.twilightedge.com/downloads/Neko_TouchShield.zip
So, you can load several frames of images into the memory correct? Then how quickly can you switch between images with the arduino?
It depends on the image size. A 128x128, 24-bit color (262K colors) bitmap can draw at about 10 frames per second.
I saw an application where a girl icon was dancing around, at it was pretty fluent animation.
Check out this game that Josh made,
http://www.twilightedge.com/arduino/neko/index.html
hy anyone please tell me that can i use aurdino decimill and the touchscreen interface as shown in above picture to creat the menu for my final year project
i am working on abd2 kit
is it possible that i can send the commnds that are hex values to my car ecu by touching the lcd please help me...
Why didn't you guys post the Slide pics? It's also quite the nice piece of tech.