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A project log for E-ink driver with a single channel LVDS input

An experimental board for researching possibilities of retrofitting e-inks into netbooks

tomek-szczsnyTomek Szczęsny a day ago0 Comments

That PCB still needs some silkscreen cleanup and production files export, but I'm not up to doing this tonight. I added a picture to the project to make it look less dull and certainly not stale.

It took me a few tries before I nailed the layout with both FPC connectors for each supported e-ink. I was this close to giving up on this idea and making a design exclusive to one e-ink model.

I'll probably do what worked for me for the last time and order this PCB with cheap passives mounted on it, and hand solder more expensive components. The reason is I don't want to have 5 pieces built, and I don't want to spend a day cherry picking the right resistor for each footprint.

Huh, knowing that, I could have designed it around smaller components than 0603.

The next step would be to have this thing manufactured, but also to have the development environment set up on my Radxa CM3, and a few missing Verilog blocks developed in the meantime.

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