NP-41 Emulator (may be)

[Chris Chung]

(08-21-2015 02:52 PM)jebem Wrote:  

(08-21-2015 12:32 PM)Chris Chung Wrote:  Anyway, one factory came back to me. Yes you can get the tooling for $900. But for the size of our glass, the MOQ is 2000. They didn't even bother to continue as I indicated that I need 100 for an initial batch. Anyway, I will try others. We might end up w/ a less desirable "option" of going dot matrix.

Yap, 2000 is way too much, at least for this forum members.
I hope to be wrong, but I even doubt that there are 100 interested members here from the start, considering the responses to this thread so far.
I know many people are in vacancies and others will only show interest when they see the actual product up and running.
So in the end, getting 100 interested members is a number that can be reached during the life span of this project.

Standard dot matrix lcd is just fine with me, but this will create a new challenge as one will need to design the 7-bit character set font bit maps from scratch replicating the original 41 symbols.

Another factory did not reply after I stated that the 1st batch is only 100 units.
Does not look promising.

I am trying another route. I will continue to look for a cheap enough factory for custom glass. And I will start to build a standalone unit w/ 128x32ish COG types. The bitmaps shouldn't be to hard to do. I might use a lesser device as no LCD segment driving is needed.

@rtoi, @rwiker, @jjohnson873, thanks for links and input.