MSP430 and Nokia 6100 LCD

[jbremnant 17]

I'd much prefer working with this LCD: Nokia LCD 6101

 

It's cheap and better than the one I am playing with, but the 20 pin 0.5mm connectors are hard to find.

I am also not confident with smd soldering either. I wish there was a flexible/cheap breakout for it...

Perhaps my buddy norlin can help. I think he recently joined the forum.

[GeekDoc 226]

it's this one, kind of like a test board for "a lot" of different phone types.

That's the one! Thanks, simpleavr.

[cde 334]

Save the cell phone's pcb. The connector is normally connected to test points through out the board, and gives you a nice board to mount the lcd on, AND the backlighting leds are always attached to the board, not the lcd.

[simpleavr 399]

Save the cell phone's pcb. The connector is normally connected to test points through out the board, and gives you a nice board to mount the lcd on, AND the backlighting leds are always attached to the board, not the lcd.

 

that's what i'm going try next. but i don't want to have a bulky piece of pcb dangling, will try and cut it out enough to solder my thin wires on. thanks for advice.

[jbremnant 17]

Finally had the chance to do a write up on work done so far:

 

http://jbremnant.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/nokia-lcd-wiinunchuck-with-msp430

 

The code can be downloaded here:

http://www.remnantone.com/pkgs/msp430/noklcd.zip

 

I am still trying to squeeze every bit (literally!) of flash space out of the chip, so I can fit a simple game in there.

Let me know if you guys have good suggestions/feedback.