I'm trying to source parts for a project.
I want to buy 2-4 monitors/displays to display ANSI art, BMP, JPG, Teletype, ASCII, etc... no video.
I was even thinking about eINK but... most are b&w, the color ones are sometimes 3 or 7 colors and they are EXPENSIVE - and theres ZERO possibility of displaying videos, or even animated art/GIFs.

Every month the new BLOCKTRONICS and MiSTiGRiS comes out and I want to display these, and my favorite ANSI and other (static) art. In my brain, I envision like 2 large movie-poster sized (or a little smaller) screens, thin... and maybe a couple others that are odd sized. I've seen some sware monitors on Alibaba - I guess I could do the old broken-laptop controller ordering, but I'd love to find a bigger solution that might even look NICE when I install them in some fancy frames or display.

Anyway, in my man-cave/computer room I want to create an arduino/raspberry pi project that turns on with motion and sends random (but programmed - one display is for the NEW artpacks, one is for AMiGA ASCII fonts, one is my /favorites folder and one can possibly be video or something.

Any ideas on what type of displays to use for this TYPE of media? ANSI/ASCII/animated GIF/JPG-BMP-ETC video is the last thing I may want to put on one. Want them to be LIKE movie-posters... smaller is OK, but I'd love huge ones. :P

Gosh, thanks ladies n gents for not jumping my lame diarrhea of the mouth thoughts...



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Re: Monitor/Display suggestions?
By: paulie420 to All on Sun Nov 29 2020 09:18 am

Anyway, in my man-cave/computer room I want to create an arduino/raspberry pi project that turns on
with motion and sends random (but programmed - one display is for the NEW artpacks, one is for AMiGA
ASCII fonts, one is my /favorites folder and one can possibly be video or something.

Why not get some of those super cheap LCD TV displays. You can mount them verticaly and display the long ANSI art all at once. That would be cool. They displays themselves are less then $200 a pop for a 55 inch 1080.

If you do this, I want to see pics.

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Why not get some of those super cheap LCD TV displays. You can mount
them verticaly and display the long ANSI art all at once. That would be cool. They
displays themselves are less then $200 a pop for a 55 inch 1080.
If you do this, I want to see pics.
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I was thinking about this bob; and then I thought like... man if eINK was a little (lot) better and a LOT (at least a little) cheaper, wouldn't that be an awesome way... they stay active without power and would be perfect for this. I think the most is 7 colors and... just not a fit.

If I went with TVs, the most important thing would be how thick they are... and, I wouldn't need 55s!!! Like a 24, 18 or 32 would be more than enough...

I thought about old monitors from goodwill ($13.99 for computer ones, $34.99 for 32-42 sized TV ones) and taking the displays out of the cases.

I've looked on Alibaba and there are some displays that will work, that are just the controller card and the panels.... so; I guess I already know my answer(s) but thought maybe someone had the ah-ha suggestion. :P

Anyway, if I do realize this project I'll post links for sure.



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