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author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Wed, 23 Jun 2021 08:23:10 +0000
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1 The board project contained in this directory was built in 2020-04 under highly
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2 adverse political conditions. It is an LCD carrier board originally built to be
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3 connected to the expansion interface on the historical iWOW DSK v4.0 Calypso
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4 motherboard, also compatible with our FC Caramel2 MB built in the later part of
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5 2020. The actual LCD module in this design is HaoRan HT020K1QC36S: out of the
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6 two candidate LCD modules we had evaluated in the FT2232D MCU host bus emulation
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7 setup back in 2018, this one was a little easier to use mechanically in a quick
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8 low-effort development board like the one we needed to build in 2020-04.
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10 These HaoRan LCD modules appear to be no longer available (in our 2020 work we
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11 used the last remaining sample pieces from the batch we got in 2018), but the
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12 new LCD subsystem board being designed in the lunalcd2 directory (using a
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13 different LCD module from a new vendor with whom we are engaging in 2021) is
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14 hoped to be a satisfactory replacement.