Round LCDs

My understanding is that LCDs are a fairly easy item to make custom, although I'm pretty sure that making it round will be a wrinkle that not all the LCD houses in the world can cope with.

Thus there are a ton of small LCD houses out there, even for "standard" rectangular text and graphics displays.

I had the "easy to make" bit of info pointed out to me by an Avnet FAE; you may want to see if they still rep whoever does it if you don't want to dig out the information yourself.

True round glass would be impossible to make. However, cutting corners (literally) for better fits is possible. I have seen polygon LCDs from the factory, but toolings are extras.

Something like octagon-shaped might be easier.

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Who makes them? Sunlight readable as well. Up to 100mm diameter.

Not a square unit masked off. This has to fit existing round gauge locations.

Yes, it can be done with LCD, but better with OLED. Many small cell phones and mp4 players are switching to OLED.

Eg.

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Forget it unless you have LOTS of zeros after your quantity (and it won't be cheap).

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I forgot to mention: Not a fixed segment display, but a color QVGA.

Oh yea, just a little detail.

don

Toshiba makes a 62mm round LCD display.

It doesn't seem to be in their standard catalog, though.

John Nagle

If it wasn't color, round is not a problem, I worked for a few months in a LCD plant in college.

Do you want a marine or avionics LCD?

Steve

Electronic globe Electronic fishbowl in concert with fisheye cameras?

Hmm..

Yes, OLED can be implanted on any material, even T-shirts. Power consumption is somewhat between reflective LCD and back-lighted LCD. For color LCD, you need back-light anyway. Higher power is the only thing stopping us from switching from reflective LCD, but this may or may not be a problem for the OP.

Marine grade is fine. Color would be nice, too. But I'm not sure if that will be a firm requirement (inevitably, the customer will ask for it after a monochrome design is 90% complete).

This is good. Really good. And seeing as how its 2007 info, they may have somewhat larger units available.

Thanks. I'll pursue this.

Some LCDs are fast enough you can sequence backlight colors to give something inbetween mono and full color. Not sure about patent restrictions on the scheme tho.

Cool. Looks like there is a bit of recent action on this sort of product. See also this one from RuckyGordStar:

Applications--- watches (small ones), vehicle instruments (larger ones) and perhaps personal electronics such as an iPod.

I'll take her! You can keep the watch!

This display (not a watch, it's a test of your ability to concentrate) was at the SID conference in Los Angeles about a year ago.

Sorry, no idea about the (presumably) Korean young lady, but there's plenty like that in the general neighborhood for me. And I could get some delicous dolsot bibimbap too (yum):

and kimchi

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany