Hi guys,
I recently got 2 Nokia 6100/3100 color LCD's from ebay.in Luckily the seller included a plug on connector with the LCD for FREE
the best part of these LCD's is that they are ABSOLUTELY CHEEP,
Features:
- 132x132 pixels of freedom (compare it to NOKIA 5110 Display which is 84x48 pixels and TI SHARP LCD Booster pack 96x96 pixels)
- easy to use they have SPI based interface
- COLOR LCD Display (rest all are monochrome)
- Very bright back-light that uniformly covers the entire display.
Comparison with other 3 LCD's i have
So, This indeed is a really Cheep and amazing display.Lets see their support and performance
I got a couple of them from Ebay INDIA for ~200 INR. NOTE: there are 2 different types of controller available in the market EPSON one and PHILIPS one. I found this Link really useful for helping me finding which one I have Nokia LCD types. Both the LCD's had Philips controller. (IF you read somewhere that GREEN PCB is a EPSON one and Brown PCB is a Philips one, then that info is CRAP I have a GREEN and a BROWN one and both of them are Philips)
Now, the prime thing is setup . I couldn't connect wires through the LCD to a breakout PCB as the pads are too close. (0.5mm pitch) so I took a TSSOP Breakout board (That had a pitch of 0.65mm so I had to do some tweaks to get the damn small connector on place fixed ).
This is how it looks with LCD on Board
Luckily, my soldering Skills are fine so nothing Blew up on powering . The LCD's connector seems to be very fragile, so, I secured the LCD using some Double side tape. (Aweee Love those )
NOW SOME MIXED-FEELINGS TIME (Weather
it works, or not? ohh god did I blew it up ? No, no No, Please Work No I
have done everything !! Ohh I forgot that ? and so on .. .. .. )
Firstly,
I am a MSP430 Guy so I have couple of Launchpads with me to play around
with. So, I searched and searched for someone whu may have done the
interfacing as these LCD's are not New or so, and indeed I found a Guy0
"RobG" at 43oh.com who is working on a Graphic Library supporting
multiple displays http://forum.43oh.com/topic/1956-universal-color-lcd-graphics-library.
unfortunately after May 6th 2013 they have dropped the support for NOKIA 6100/3100 LCD's PCF8833 Philips controller. anyways I found a previous version f the library and of course it didn't worked out of box, but with some slight modifications to the controller's code I was able to get the test code "RobG" had written to work with my setup . Hurrayyy...
Visit My GitHub for Code :)
Links In case you wonder where I got them from :)
I bought it from Ebay.in (Online TPS Store),
But you can still order it from http://www.onlinetps.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=9_41&products_id=776.
Digibay also have these displays, though they are always out of stock. http://www.digibay.in/display/lcd/nokia-6100-color-lcd-128-x-128-pixel-arduino-compaitble.
I also have found these at many various online stores, but either they have high cost or really crazy shipping/payment scheme, so I left those out
I recently got 2 Nokia 6100/3100 color LCD's from ebay.in Luckily the seller included a plug on connector with the LCD for FREE
the best part of these LCD's is that they are ABSOLUTELY CHEEP,
Features:
- 132x132 pixels of freedom (compare it to NOKIA 5110 Display which is 84x48 pixels and TI SHARP LCD Booster pack 96x96 pixels)
- easy to use they have SPI based interface
- COLOR LCD Display (rest all are monochrome)
- Very bright back-light that uniformly covers the entire display.
Comparison with other 3 LCD's i have
| LCD Compairison | NOKIA 6100/3100 LCD | NOKIA 5110 LCD | Sharp LS013B4DN04 Memory LCD | 16x2 Charactor LCD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Color/Monochrome(C/M) | C | M | M with high visibility in sunlight | M |
| View Area | 132x132(RGB with 8-Bit colours) | 84x48 | 96x96 | 5x7*32 (each 5x7 are separated from others) |
| Interface(SPI/I2C/Parallel) | SPI | SPI | SPI | Parallel |
| Backlight(Yes/No) | Bright Backlight(~7v) | Bright 4LED Backlight(~5v) | No | Singh LED Backlight(~5v) |
| PowerConsumption | ~2-3mA for LCD ~40-50mA for Backlight | <1mA for LCD ~1-10mA for Backlight | <5uA for LCD | <0.5mA for LCD ~1-5mA for Backlight |
| COST | ~250INR(~4USD) | ~300INR(~5USD) | ~1200INR(~20USD) | ~170INR(~3USD) |
So, This indeed is a really Cheep and amazing display.Lets see their support and performance
I got a couple of them from Ebay INDIA for ~200 INR. NOTE: there are 2 different types of controller available in the market EPSON one and PHILIPS one. I found this Link really useful for helping me finding which one I have Nokia LCD types. Both the LCD's had Philips controller. (IF you read somewhere that GREEN PCB is a EPSON one and Brown PCB is a Philips one, then that info is CRAP I have a GREEN and a BROWN one and both of them are Philips)
Now, the prime thing is setup . I couldn't connect wires through the LCD to a breakout PCB as the pads are too close. (0.5mm pitch) so I took a TSSOP Breakout board (That had a pitch of 0.65mm so I had to do some tweaks to get the damn small connector on place fixed ).
This is how it looks with LCD on Board
Luckily, my soldering Skills are fine so nothing Blew up on powering . The LCD's connector seems to be very fragile, so, I secured the LCD using some Double side tape. (Aweee Love those )
unfortunately after May 6th 2013 they have dropped the support for NOKIA 6100/3100 LCD's PCF8833 Philips controller. anyways I found a previous version f the library and of course it didn't worked out of box, but with some slight modifications to the controller's code I was able to get the test code "RobG" had written to work with my setup . Hurrayyy...
Visit My GitHub for Code :)
Links In case you wonder where I got them from :)
I bought it from Ebay.in (Online TPS Store),
But you can still order it from http://www.onlinetps.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=9_41&products_id=776.
Digibay also have these displays, though they are always out of stock. http://www.digibay.in/display/lcd/nokia-6100-color-lcd-128-x-128-pixel-arduino-compaitble.
I also have found these at many various online stores, but either they have high cost or really crazy shipping/payment scheme, so I left those out
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