For some reason, the first thing I thought of was replacing the standard car dashboard dials with these! You can position the screens in whatever layout you want, not to mention having customizable speedometer or fuel/battery gauge. You will be able to have a way to add almost any sensor to you dashboard as well.
Same here, but it's tough to find anything in a decent size and OLED. Don't thinkt the backlight is so nice for during the night. Unless you were able to find a good, larger, oled model ?
already done. and its more easily and cheaper to use one regular display. these displays are used for specialised use, like watches or displays in special cases.
I would love to build one in with an ADS-B virtual radar display. So a little handheld device that shows you aircraft within your immediate vicinity based on their ADS-B data.
A fake telescope, when you move it around you change the view on the display, like that sky app. Excellent ice breaker for visitors. Another more useful idea could be a door viewer, like those little lenses in hotel rooms, but you put a fish-eye cam in your front door and the display in any door of the house.
I'm not even a gamer, but was thinking it would be great inside the telescopic gunsight of a toy AR for gamers, with your suggested motion detector. Full disclosure, I hate that kids are being weened on violent VR kill zones, becoming desensitized while receiving dopamine rewards for their highest kill scores, then becoming skilled weapons experts and teenaged mass murderers. JS
Waow I love the idea of a round themed clamshell phone, that'd be *sick* nostalgia with a twist! It would require quite a bit of bodywork for it to look and feel like an old phone tho
I think it would be a fun project to find a way to make one of the small ones into basically a wearable pin that you can have a moving picture or even just change what you're showing on a whim, I would wear that all the time lol
@@MrVolt its been three weeks so slim chance you see this, but, I think you could even give it its own wifi or some other type of connection so that you could send an image to it on the fly, wirelessly.
You could use the large display as a face of a character in a 'hoodie', the face can be good or evil or trasition from good to evil Though it would be cool if the character could move around by remote control too.
I keep thinking about how being round makes it seem so… portal like. Like imagine decorating the outside with stones or making it look like a star gate. Then program the pi to randomly connect to twitch streamers or webcam feeds, so it’s like you’ve got a little portal into another world just hanging on your wall. Heck, if you just had it run a game of Minecraft that would look cool.
These would make a sick upgrade to smart meters for the likes of flight sims, and other equipment where a traditional needle gauge is used, but you want to be able to change the display / meter for different applications!! Also, for really nice looking dash UI's in cars where the speedomoter goes - changing colours to suit the car, the mood, day vs night, etc... Possibilities are endless! I always wanted to do something like this for a car...
I have been wanting to make a Digital pocket watch. I bought a antique one a long time ago, I may need to pickup that smallest display. Thanks for laying these all out.
I'm surprised that we haven't gotten these as alternatives to smartphones and smartwatches. Can't wear a watch and you want more power? Smart pocketwatch is the solution! I think we all want a handheld round smartwatch with GPS and internet for radar and maps, photos and videos, rotary phone dialing with touch screen, maybe a 5x-10x telescopic lens on the back to give you a monocular!
A medical vital sign display. The bezel around the display also being round leads to a display that is easier to sanitize between patients. The lack of corners means no place for dirt and biofilms to build up.
Two related ideas: an AR hand mirror that uses a fisheye lens and pupil tracking to render the scene from appropriate angles, and an AR magnifying glass that does the same but for the scene in front of it rather than a "reflection".
Hey, these might be great application for playing around with "Anamorphosis" You know, those distorted images that can only be seen properly with a special cylindrical or conical mirror.
I really have been thinking of getting a GPS module attached to a Arduino or Pi and a small display, then house it all into a rugged case for a digital atlas for hiking. These round edges would actually fair better in a drop test, than a corner impact on a standard display.
The devices in the sci-fi magazine at 13:39 are what is essentially a phone with a video call function. All it would take would be a microphone (preferably an array to use for noise cancelling), an audio output and a wide angle camera with OIS. You can use the motherboard and battery from a smartphone to control it all, and install custom software to start on launch like the handsets for scan as you shop in supermarkets (they run Android, sometimes you can still access the navigation buttons and go to the home screen)
I love the idea of turning one into a GPS the looks like a dragon rader. But it needs to be combined with an electric skateboard (or longboard) that is decked out to look like the flying nimbus.
Oh, as a project idea: absolutely overkill, but you could pop two of the watch screen sized ones onto some glasses, and then mount some kind of HMD on the other side - like, slap these on a vuzix headset or something to give you 'eyes' or something like what Rezz wears! :P
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These round displays would be amazing in a handheld magic mirror (like from a fairy tale). 3D print a frame/handle with a very ornate design, and put a 2-way mirror in front of the screen (when the display is black you only see the mirror, but text pictures that appear on the screen will shine through).
I was thinking something similar. Either the theatrical mask from Shrek or the eyes and smile of the cat from Alice in Wonderland. But I was thinking it would be used to augment a voice service like Alexa, Google, or any other flavor of voice assistance on the market.
800x600 centered would still look awesome , someone had the idea first to put the screen behind a thin mirror so you could have those devices used in the comics, today. I think it also has a ring light for makeup but integrated with the screen/mirror. I think having one for a door hole would be neat for those who don't want or cant have a company owned video doorbell system. just attaches to the back of the door and blows up the through hole image to a size that's more manageable.
I like the idea of making the phone thing from the science magazine. I've seen that image used over the years to show how close they were in predicting cell phones. If you made a couple actually capable of video calls then the prediction would finally be fulfilled!
The 2 things I can think of that I would like to do with one of these are: 1. Interactive Miss Minutes from the Loki series on Disney+. That would be cool to have an all in one unit that was interactive that you could talk to like Siri. Add a motion camera and it can follow you around with eyes and be all creepy like. 2. Replace and 100% customizable dash board display in your car. Get 2 of the 3.4 or 5 inch ones for Tach and Speedometer and some smaller ones for oil pressure, fuel, alternator voltage. You could customize them to anything you wanted to output and display different backgrounds on them to match the style of your car. Would be interesting to see.
Agreed, custom car/motorcycle gages would be cool. A speedo with flames in the background? Tach that flashes at redline or changes different colors when close? I'd love to use one for the rifle scope on a movie prop.
I'm 100% using these to build an open source electric motorcycle... These displays are perfect for the gauges and the touch functionality on the smaller one opens the door for a similar android system to what's used in modern cars. Thanks for this video!
Thank you for this video! I always love the idea of radial and circular UI. In fact I wrote an experimental UI based on circles and zoom navigation (zircle-ui). Right now I’m working on a new css library focused just on radial and circular grids. This video show me that maybe this future library has a niche on round lcd. What tools or libraries do you use to create GUI for round lcd?
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I was thinking of using it for either a retrofit into an antique console clock or a topper for a video pinball machine or even in a bell jar or fishbowl to give you a "floating head" crystal ball ala haunted mansion. Super cool. Can't wait to get one for myself!
Nice overview! By the way: the smartphone science fiction drawing at 13:45 is a collectible by "Echte Wagner Margarine", a german butter substitute company. There are several companies in the 1930s who did something like that, you may enjoy the postcards by "Hildebrands Schokoladenfabriken" as well.
Great informative showcase of components!😀 Would love to see more videos like these in the future if you have the need/opportunity in future projects (components, tools, development kits, etc.)! It's stretching the boundaries a bit, but using one of the smaller 1" displays with one of the 5" displays to create a DHD and Stargate that communicate and animate with each other would be pretty friggin epic! (bonus points if you can use a capacitive touch display for the DHD and make it functional as a DHD to dial an actual address on the larger display stargate!)
Those bigger round displays look like they're used in car dashboards. Some luxury cars have "multifunction displays" as their speedometer. I bet that could help you or someone on the quest for docs.
Very cool! I was looking a few years back to do a digital gauge for my 68 442. That 3.4 or 5" one may do the trick. My only beef is the the Rasp Pi is way too slow in booting up.
These are so cool! Now I'm thinking of picking up one of those bigger 5" ones, seeing if I can find a circular touch panel to match, and making a desk toy. High quality models from NASA of all the planets and when you swipe your finger, it spins around. Like an old-school globe, but smaller and flatter, and more than just the Earth. Or zoom out and see the entire solar system and be able to spin it around. Could be a fun little desktop fidgeter for when I'm stuck in a boring Zoom meeting...
The horror/prop-making community would probably love a reproduction of the clamshell e-reader from It Follows. I've been looking at round displays myself for animated eyes on a mask.
This perfect. I’ve always wanted to figure out a way to make a smart speedometer for my motorcycle (it has a 4” speedo) and so I’ve wanted to use the original housing to keep it looking stock. Now I just have to figure out the software side. I’d like to be able to use the touchscreen to swipe and open a map or more info screen etc.
Some of those to be retrofitted as a gauge cluster in an old car. Looks old and time acurate, but with a flip of a button you can see info as oiltemp, rev, voltage, boost, GPS and other car-stuff. Not all people want square digital clusters.
Not sure if you will see my comment, but I am super excited that you shared this video. I wanted to figure out if I could Integrate a round screen into a vintage freestanding radio running touch with Android for str among iHeartRadio, Spotify, etc. Essentially make it mimick and act like a giant *smartwatch* of sorts if that makes sense?
This is motivating me to dig out the 5 360x360 ips mini circle displays I got in my parts bin. I got one to work but using the DSI interface was kind of meh at the time. Also couldn't think of a good project with them.
That's awesome. Lots of fun ideas, but i would love to have one in my front door (on the inside) and the video doorbell centred on the front, and it'd essentially be a one way porthole.
Ships’ “porthole”, with 20 minute video/audio loop of ocean waves showing on display. Could be either top water, or below waterline (think submarine/ROV viewport). With nice antiqued brass finish/fittings on the seams. A submarine periscope based game also could be another good idea..
Little off topic but one project ive always wanted to do is create a small "old style" tv 3d print and have it 24/7 play episode by episode of tv shows that I like. One of the challenges I face with this project would be how to program some random 3-6 inch LCD display to play video and have it play one episode after another. Seeing that some of these simply have a HDMI port makes it a little simpler but has sparked the flame for me to start this process.
I've made a few raspberry pi based arcade cabinets with retropi and hundreds of old games. Sometimes it can be confusing knowing what button does what in different games. I would like to embed the 1.28" displays into custom button face (reusing the switches but replacing the top) and have a scraper pull what each button does for each game to display the function on each button. They would be a little oversized and It would be tough to make it robust enough that you wouldn't destroy the screen when button mashing but at $20 a piece I think it would be worth the experimentation.
I've long wanted to recreate the watch from Big O, I think the little display would be usable for that but the power consumption gets a bit tough to fit in such a small package.
My idea: Wall-mounted clock that serves as an alarm and possibly has Mycroft integration as an alternative to Alexa. Think of it as an open-source alternative to an Echo show. Set timers and maybe even stream music. Or, go completely unga-bunga and include a CD toploader so the screen flips up, revealing a CD drive, to pop in a good old disc, or audiobook, and have it play that back! I currently have an alarm clock with quite some features, and one of them is indeed a CD player which I use to play all my audiobooks - I am visually impaired, thus, those things are very common to me. What I heavily miss though is being able to seamlessly switch between inputs. The remote works, albeit being flimsy as heck, and changing input channels is not easy. It does the job, is an amazing device, but it is just missing that seamlessness for when I just want to send some Spotify to it to listen to tunes before sleeping, or being a home assistant for my smart home. Alternatively, just make the most overkill, overpowered DiscMan in existence with that 5" chonker :D Add a battery and storage and off you go! Using SDL and LVGL, making small programs for this sounds like fun. Sadly, due to my impairment, I lack soldering skills and I haven't had a good introduction to 3D printing stuff yet - except for it costing quite a lot -.- I still have a PSX DVR (the japan-only PlayStation 2 with integrated DVR) here. It's dead, dismantled and sitting in a box and I have been wanting to make an internal frame for it to throw a RasPi, BD drive, some harddrives and other neat things into it as a makeshift retro console or media center as an alternative to an Apple TV.
Thanks for sharing your research! I have plans for one of these for a custom modern Ghostbusters PKE Meter, so that will allow me to hit the ground running.
I think I'll be adding one to my Pimoroni 7 colour epaper inky display that I currently use as a calendar, but the round display would then satisfy the need for a clock! hmmmnn. nyesss, this must happen
You should make a soviet version of the PIP Boy from Fallout using the large round screen. Just got to think how would the soviets would make a PIP Boy. The round screen instead of the rectangle would be an alternative look. By use a round lens with a slight curve to give it that old electronic testing equipment from the 60's.
I'm so glad you made this video I've been looking at these displays for a while now but wanted more info before purchasing one. I'd like to make the compact communicator from Carmen Sandiego probably with two of the 3.4" ones
One idea for a project : A virtual telescope. Perhaps with an accelerometer, some fake lens in front of the screen to have it look more real. Perhaps rather than accelerometers, have it tied to a base, and have potentiometers move when turning, or something like that (rotary encoders?) Well anyways, you move the physical thing, and it moves the view. Turn a ring, and you zoom in, and perhaps another one for focus (could be simulated by simply bluring the image when not in the proper range? but it would require more meta data, more difficult to implement properly). Anyways, nice displays, i think i'll look into those to see something to build with it. I'd like to do something like gauges with it, or; based on your dragon radar idea, some kind of GPS thinggy.
A digital periscope. PVC pipe a camera at the top and and one of these screens at the bottom. even do a bezel by cutting out a circular hole in a cap for it. Overlay graphics with the height above sea level and longitude + latitude by using a GPS module. Alternatively, make it a decorative piece by using one of the large screens as the 'In' lens, showing a graphic of a sailors or krakens eye looking around.
For some reason I really want a circle display. I have no technical skills and even less creativity, but the idea of a circular screen is so... alluring. I kinda wish that I did have an amazing idea on how to use a circle display.
A motorcycle odometer that shows driving directions and a camera feeds when the turning signals are on... The pi can easily control things like temp and oil pressure sensor, shift indicator, and even tire pressure indicators...
That pimoroni one with a chonky bezel looks verrrrrry familiar. Echo/nest I think 🤔 nice to see oem parts getting lives outside of killed-off smarthome gadgets :)
Hope your “screen saver” is not a fixed image. Seems counterintuitive. As a wallpaper it would be nice. These are really nice displays, I’m having all sorts of ideas to use them!
an open source smart speaker using Mycroft and one of these to create a UI to emulate a clock + various other relevant bits of info would be pretty sick. Maybe with an AirPlay server, too.
Now we a GUI layer for an OS that natively doesn't have corners - Microsoft Circles (except not Microsoft please)
Like Android Wear?
@@Craft4Cube Sure, but a desktop OS
@@AtomicShrimp what's your definition of "desktop os"? I'm sure someone already made something like Android Wear x86
@@Craft4Cube I confess I know little about Android Wear - I was thinking of a GUI with a windowing API etc that works on non-rectangular concepts
@@AtomicShrimp Ah, i see. Yeah, i don't think something like that exists yet
"Call us for a quote!" Breaks my heart every time...
For some reason, the first thing I thought of was replacing the standard car dashboard dials with these! You can position the screens in whatever layout you want, not to mention having customizable speedometer or fuel/battery gauge. You will be able to have a way to add almost any sensor to you dashboard as well.
Same here, but it's tough to find anything in a decent size and OLED. Don't thinkt the backlight is so nice for during the night. Unless you were able to find a good, larger, oled model ?
already done. and its more easily and cheaper to use one regular display. these displays are used for specialised use, like watches or displays in special cases.
@@peepopalaber Sure its easier and cheaper to use a rectangular display. But it wont integrate as nicely as a round one.
@@Elmarvan94 his point is, it does. newer Mazda dashboards do this. The plastic trim hides the fact that the screen is rectangular.
NICE!!!! Great thinking! 👍
the larger versions would be perfect as a speedometer for my '89 Fiat Panda
I would love to build one in with an ADS-B virtual radar display. So a little handheld device that shows you aircraft within your immediate vicinity based on their ADS-B data.
That would look beautiful, and shouldn't be too hard to do. My pilot friends would love this too :)
@@tyellowquill oh I'm fully capable of building it 😁 I was saying that's what I would use the small display for.
@@MrVolt Hey Ive had this elliptical screen for months and havent figured out how to get it to work, can you please tell me what i need to do.
Hey might as well make a video about that too! I'd love to watch it.
YES
A fake telescope, when you move it around you change the view on the display, like that sky app. Excellent ice breaker for visitors.
Another more useful idea could be a door viewer, like those little lenses in hotel rooms, but you put a fish-eye cam in your front door and the display in any door of the house.
Stellarium(sky app) is a beautiful thing.
I'm not even a gamer, but was thinking it would be great inside the telescopic gunsight of a toy AR for gamers, with your suggested motion detector.
Full disclosure, I hate that kids are being weened on violent VR kill zones, becoming desensitized while receiving dopamine rewards for their highest kill scores, then becoming skilled weapons experts and teenaged mass murderers. JS
@@TheOleHermitmost kids don't have the 2ks worth of vr gaming shit you need to play most vr games
Waow I love the idea of a round themed clamshell phone, that'd be *sick* nostalgia with a twist! It would require quite a bit of bodywork for it to look and feel like an old phone tho
Design challenge accepted!
I hope this video gets made
like those makeup pucks with the mirrors
Smart pocket watch! Heck yes!
I think it would be a fun project to find a way to make one of the small ones into basically a wearable pin that you can have a moving picture or even just change what you're showing on a whim, I would wear that all the time lol
I really really love this idea. Digital pins would be fantastic, you could rotate or tap them to adjust to any image. This would be a fun mini build.
@@MrVolt it really would be awesome, if I were able to follow along with the video I would 1000% make one and use it all the time haha!
@@MrVolt shoes with a built usb microscope and a pin that shoes the view
@@MrVolt its been three weeks so slim chance you see this, but, I think you could even give it its own wifi or some other type of connection so that you could send an image to it on the fly, wirelessly.
I immeadiately think of the "Potter stinks" badges from goblet of fire
Love the flip rotary phone idea!
They're honestly very pretty. just super eye catching having such a thin bezel and a truly round display.
You could use the large display as a face of a character in a 'hoodie', the face can be good or evil or trasition from good to evil
Though it would be cool if the character could move around by remote control too.
Live Instagram/snapchat/whatever filter
I keep thinking about how being round makes it seem so… portal like. Like imagine decorating the outside with stones or making it look like a star gate. Then program the pi to randomly connect to twitch streamers or webcam feeds, so it’s like you’ve got a little portal into another world just hanging on your wall. Heck, if you just had it run a game of Minecraft that would look cool.
yup, with a lens on it, so it blurs on the edges 🤔
That 1.28" screen would go really well with the Adafruit GEMMA v2.
These would make a sick upgrade to smart meters for the likes of flight sims, and other equipment where a traditional needle gauge is used, but you want to be able to change the display / meter for different applications!! Also, for really nice looking dash UI's in cars where the speedomoter goes - changing colours to suit the car, the mood, day vs night, etc... Possibilities are endless! I always wanted to do something like this for a car...
the 3.4" one would be ideal for an instrument cluster. could be a cool dash overhaul if someones swapping in an aftermarket ECU on an older car.
I have been wanting to make a Digital pocket watch. I bought a antique one a long time ago, I may need to pickup that smallest display. Thanks for laying these all out.
Would love to see your take on this!
I'm surprised that we haven't gotten these as alternatives to smartphones and smartwatches. Can't wear a watch and you want more power? Smart pocketwatch is the solution! I think we all want a handheld round smartwatch with GPS and internet for radar and maps, photos and videos, rotary phone dialing with touch screen, maybe a 5x-10x telescopic lens on the back to give you a monocular!
A medical vital sign display. The bezel around the display also being round leads to a display that is easier to sanitize between patients. The lack of corners means no place for dirt and biofilms to build up.
I need a 42" diameter one, any leads?
w.. w-what for?
A manhole cover that screams in pain and shows a face of agony when it gets stepped on/ran over
@@tf_d OwO come into my sewers
I have your solution, get a 42" display and a pair of scissors
@@ethand4784 n o
Two related ideas: an AR hand mirror that uses a fisheye lens and pupil tracking to render the scene from appropriate angles, and an AR magnifying glass that does the same but for the scene in front of it rather than a "reflection".
The Farnsworth communication device from the show Warehouse 13 would be perfect for these screens!
Ok, I'm finally going to watch this show. I love the design of that communicator!
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Thank you very much, Anders
Hey, these might be great application for playing around with "Anamorphosis"
You know, those distorted images that can only be seen properly with a special cylindrical or conical mirror.
Just looked into this, that would looks so cool! Thanks for the tip
Big fan of the time stamps, keep it up
Perfect for a digital clock and a circular calendar that I have been thinking of - good for anything time-related really
8:27
Checking in to find a replacement for the analog gauges in my 71 Corvette. These 5" rounds are perfect but need a lot of gpu power to drive well
I could see these being used for Mechanicus costumes.
Rounded shapes also work with art deco designs as well
I don't own a 3d printer and while I'm intimidated, I am keen on crafting Synergy, the holographic computer from Jem 😍
Well ... Lady Penelope's compact/communicator sprung to mind. FAB.
I really have been thinking of getting a GPS module attached to a Arduino or Pi and a small display,
then house it all into a rugged case for a digital atlas for hiking.
These round edges would actually fair better in a drop test, than a corner impact on a standard display.
The devices in the sci-fi magazine at 13:39 are what is essentially a phone with a video call function. All it would take would be a microphone (preferably an array to use for noise cancelling), an audio output and a wide angle camera with OIS. You can use the motherboard and battery from a smartphone to control it all, and install custom software to start on launch like the handsets for scan as you shop in supermarkets (they run Android, sometimes you can still access the navigation buttons and go to the home screen)
Yes, please. I've been looking in to round displays lately too
As a big Portal 2 fan, I love what you are doing with these.
I love the idea of turning one into a GPS the looks like a dragon rader. But it needs to be combined with an electric skateboard (or longboard) that is decked out to look like the flying nimbus.
your videos style makes it feel like an oficial aperture labs commercial video and i love it so much
It'd be cool if the text rows were actually aligned with the display; sure, everything will still look broken, but it'll be usable!
Dude I LOVE your sense of humor!
Oh, as a project idea: absolutely overkill, but you could pop two of the watch screen sized ones onto some glasses, and then mount some kind of HMD on the other side - like, slap these on a vuzix headset or something to give you 'eyes' or something like what Rezz wears! :P
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As HUGE stargatefan would be cool to have stargate that shows different worlds in the bookshelf
These round displays would be amazing in a handheld magic mirror (like from a fairy tale). 3D print a frame/handle with a very ornate design, and put a 2-way mirror in front of the screen (when the display is black you only see the mirror, but text pictures that appear on the screen will shine through).
I was thinking something similar. Either the theatrical mask from Shrek or the eyes and smile of the cat from Alice in Wonderland. But I was thinking it would be used to augment a voice service like Alexa, Google, or any other flavor of voice assistance on the market.
800x600 centered would still look awesome , someone had the idea first to put the screen behind a thin mirror so you could have those devices used in the comics, today. I think it also has a ring light for makeup but integrated with the screen/mirror. I think having one for a door hole would be neat for those who don't want or cant have a company owned video doorbell system. just attaches to the back of the door and blows up the through hole image to a size that's more manageable.
Car diagnostic, boost gage, nav direction
I like the idea of making the phone thing from the science magazine. I've seen that image used over the years to show how close they were in predicting cell phones. If you made a couple actually capable of video calls then the prediction would finally be fulfilled!
i loved the ghost in a shell smile :D
Solar system with real life clips :D
The 2 things I can think of that I would like to do with one of these are:
1. Interactive Miss Minutes from the Loki series on Disney+. That would be cool to have an all in one unit that was interactive that you could talk to like Siri. Add a motion camera and it can follow you around with eyes and be all creepy like.
2. Replace and 100% customizable dash board display in your car. Get 2 of the 3.4 or 5 inch ones for Tach and Speedometer and some smaller ones for oil pressure, fuel, alternator voltage. You could customize them to anything you wanted to output and display different backgrounds on them to match the style of your car. Would be interesting to see.
It would be cool to run a battleship game (make it look like a porthole)...with polar coordinates!
Hell yeah!
That old timey thing, looks like a make-up compact. Model it with the rotary dial, for a retro videophone.
* Winner! *
Agreed, custom car/motorcycle gages would be cool. A speedo with flames in the background? Tach that flashes at redline or changes different colors when close? I'd love to use one for the rifle scope on a movie prop.
I'm 100% using these to build an open source electric motorcycle... These displays are perfect for the gauges and the touch functionality on the smaller one opens the door for a similar android system to what's used in modern cars. Thanks for this video!
Sounds dope! Would love to see this build
Thank you for this video! I always love the idea of radial and circular UI. In fact I wrote an experimental UI based on circles and zoom navigation (zircle-ui). Right now I’m working on a new css library focused just on radial and circular grids. This video show me that maybe this future library has a niche on round lcd. What tools or libraries do you use to create GUI for round lcd?
I think you read my mind. I wanted a Linux watch, Android is Linux so I knew it was a bit easier. My Samsung Galaxy Watch Active was closed source and hard to reverse engineer. It took me a million years until this video got recommended to me before thinking about buying the the Zero 2 W. I would like to thank you for uploading such a video. Subscribed.
Your videos are so chill to watch! Not much of a person to watch videos like this and I still enjoyed it, Subbed to hopefully help you grow and be recommended to the right people :D
I was thinking of using it for either a retrofit into an antique console clock or a topper for a video pinball machine or even in a bell jar or fishbowl to give you a "floating head" crystal ball ala haunted mansion. Super cool. Can't wait to get one for myself!
Nice overview! By the way: the smartphone science fiction drawing at 13:45 is a collectible by "Echte Wagner Margarine", a german butter substitute company. There are several companies in the 1930s who did something like that, you may enjoy the postcards by "Hildebrands Schokoladenfabriken" as well.
Ah, thank you for this! I had looked before, but had no luck.
Great informative showcase of components!😀
Would love to see more videos like these in the future if you have the need/opportunity in future projects (components, tools, development kits, etc.)!
It's stretching the boundaries a bit, but using one of the smaller 1" displays with one of the 5" displays to create a DHD and Stargate that communicate and animate with each other would be pretty friggin epic! (bonus points if you can use a capacitive touch display for the DHD and make it functional as a DHD to dial an actual address on the larger display stargate!)
Oh boy, very challenging, but that would look slick. Love SG-1
It would be awesome to see one of these used to "recreate" a Warehouse 13 Farnsworth!
I SAW THAT MESSAGE BRO!
STILL EXCITED!😁😁
Those bigger round displays look like they're used in car dashboards. Some luxury cars have "multifunction displays" as their speedometer. I bet that could help you or someone on the quest for docs.
That's are mostly not IPS panels.
Very cool! I was looking a few years back to do a digital gauge for my 68 442. That 3.4 or 5" one may do the trick. My only beef is the the Rasp Pi is way too slow in booting up.
These are so cool! Now I'm thinking of picking up one of those bigger 5" ones, seeing if I can find a circular touch panel to match, and making a desk toy. High quality models from NASA of all the planets and when you swipe your finger, it spins around. Like an old-school globe, but smaller and flatter, and more than just the Earth. Or zoom out and see the entire solar system and be able to spin it around. Could be a fun little desktop fidgeter for when I'm stuck in a boring Zoom meeting...
The horror/prop-making community would probably love a reproduction of the clamshell e-reader from It Follows. I've been looking at round displays myself for animated eyes on a mask.
This perfect. I’ve always wanted to figure out a way to make a smart speedometer for my motorcycle (it has a 4” speedo) and so I’ve wanted to use the original housing to keep it looking stock. Now I just have to figure out the software side. I’d like to be able to use the touchscreen to swipe and open a map or more info screen etc.
This is very helpful man. Thank you! I have been wanting to make a Titanfall Data Knife for years!
Btw i really like your videos, you deserve way more subscribers for this quality content
Yo, im glad you asked. The whole time i was watching this i was thinking one of these screens would be perfect for a Teen Titans communicator!
Love these kind of videos. Subbed!
This would make for a truly amazing case mounted info panel.
Some of those to be retrofitted as a gauge cluster in an old car. Looks old and time acurate, but with a flip of a button you can see info as oiltemp, rev, voltage, boost, GPS and other car-stuff.
Not all people want square digital clusters.
Not sure if you will see my comment, but I am super excited that you shared this video. I wanted to figure out if I could Integrate a round screen into a vintage freestanding radio running touch with Android for str among iHeartRadio, Spotify, etc. Essentially make it mimick and act like a giant *smartwatch* of sorts if that makes sense?
This is motivating me to dig out the 5 360x360 ips mini circle displays I got in my parts bin. I got one to work but using the DSI interface was kind of meh at the time. Also couldn't think of a good project with them.
Making a dual-screen clamshell smartwatch out of these would be a neat build
A nice gold plated Victorian pocket watch on a chain, you open it up to reveal a two circular touch screens - go for the steam punk aesthetic
That's awesome. Lots of fun ideas, but i would love to have one in my front door (on the inside) and the video doorbell centred on the front, and it'd essentially be a one way porthole.
Ships’ “porthole”, with 20 minute video/audio loop of ocean waves showing on display. Could be either top water, or below waterline (think submarine/ROV viewport). With nice antiqued brass finish/fittings on the seams. A submarine periscope based game also could be another good idea..
Little off topic but one project ive always wanted to do is create a small "old style" tv 3d print and have it 24/7 play episode by episode of tv shows that I like. One of the challenges I face with this project would be how to program some random 3-6 inch LCD display to play video and have it play one episode after another. Seeing that some of these simply have a HDMI port makes it a little simpler but has sparked the flame for me to start this process.
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That's a nice display right there.
I've made a few raspberry pi based arcade cabinets with retropi and hundreds of old games. Sometimes it can be confusing knowing what button does what in different games. I would like to embed the 1.28" displays into custom button face (reusing the switches but replacing the top) and have a scraper pull what each button does for each game to display the function on each button. They would be a little oversized and It would be tough to make it robust enough that you wouldn't destroy the screen when button mashing but at $20 a piece I think it would be worth the experimentation.
Oooh, programmable, digital arcade buttons would be awesome!
Great stuff. Didn’t know that these exist.
I'm really pro the rotary flip phone and funky retrofuturist facetime. That would be a really fun aesthetic to explore
Lots of love for this one. I'm going to start designing
The mid size ones could be cool for a bedside smart alarm clock with weather features and stuff!
love the use of the Laughing Man icon
I've long wanted to recreate the watch from Big O, I think the little display would be usable for that but the power consumption gets a bit tough to fit in such a small package.
Now there's a show I haven't thought about in years! That would be very possible with the smaller units.
Cool to see this is available. You should see how well it works with a round UI like android wear OS
I think it would be really cool to make a room that mimics an old sailing vessel and use these as portals around the room.
My idea: Wall-mounted clock that serves as an alarm and possibly has Mycroft integration as an alternative to Alexa. Think of it as an open-source alternative to an Echo show.
Set timers and maybe even stream music. Or, go completely unga-bunga and include a CD toploader so the screen flips up, revealing a CD drive, to pop in a good old disc, or audiobook, and have it play that back!
I currently have an alarm clock with quite some features, and one of them is indeed a CD player which I use to play all my audiobooks - I am visually impaired, thus, those things are very common to me. What I heavily miss though is being able to seamlessly switch between inputs. The remote works, albeit being flimsy as heck, and changing input channels is not easy. It does the job, is an amazing device, but it is just missing that seamlessness for when I just want to send some Spotify to it to listen to tunes before sleeping, or being a home assistant for my smart home.
Alternatively, just make the most overkill, overpowered DiscMan in existence with that 5" chonker :D Add a battery and storage and off you go!
Using SDL and LVGL, making small programs for this sounds like fun. Sadly, due to my impairment, I lack soldering skills and I haven't had a good introduction to 3D printing stuff yet - except for it costing quite a lot -.- I still have a PSX DVR (the japan-only PlayStation 2 with integrated DVR) here. It's dead, dismantled and sitting in a box and I have been wanting to make an internal frame for it to throw a RasPi, BD drive, some harddrives and other neat things into it as a makeshift retro console or media center as an alternative to an Apple TV.
Thanks for sharing your research!
I have plans for one of these for a custom modern Ghostbusters PKE Meter, so that will allow me to hit the ground running.
How about one of those round picture amulet but it can play videos instead?
The Dead Ringer from TF2’s Spy. It’s a pocket watch more or less, would be fun to see it brought into the real world.
Very possible. I've got TF2 tech on the mind ;)
I think I'll be adding one to my Pimoroni 7 colour epaper inky display that I currently use as a calendar, but the round display would then satisfy the need for a clock! hmmmnn. nyesss, this must happen
You should make a soviet version of the PIP Boy from Fallout using the large round screen. Just got to think how would the soviets would make a PIP Boy. The round screen instead of the rectangle would be an alternative look. By use a round lens with a slight curve to give it that old electronic testing equipment from the 60's.
Im so into this idea
I'm so glad you made this video I've been looking at these displays for a while now but wanted more info before purchasing one. I'd like to make the compact communicator from Carmen Sandiego probably with two of the 3.4" ones
Do it do it do it!
One idea for a project : A virtual telescope. Perhaps with an accelerometer, some fake lens in front of the screen to have it look more real.
Perhaps rather than accelerometers, have it tied to a base, and have potentiometers move when turning, or something like that (rotary encoders?)
Well anyways, you move the physical thing, and it moves the view. Turn a ring, and you zoom in, and perhaps another one for focus (could be simulated by simply bluring the image when not in the proper range? but it would require more meta data, more difficult to implement properly).
Anyways, nice displays, i think i'll look into those to see something to build with it.
I'd like to do something like gauges with it, or; based on your dragon radar idea, some kind of GPS thinggy.
A digital periscope.
PVC pipe a camera at the top and and one of these screens at the bottom. even do a bezel by cutting out a circular hole in a cap for it. Overlay graphics with the height above sea level and longitude + latitude by using a GPS module.
Alternatively, make it a decorative piece by using one of the large screens as the 'In' lens, showing a graphic of a sailors or krakens eye looking around.
For some reason I really want a circle display. I have no technical skills and even less creativity, but the idea of a circular screen is so... alluring. I kinda wish that I did have an amazing idea on how to use a circle display.
A motorcycle odometer that shows driving directions and a camera feeds when the turning signals are on... The pi can easily control things like temp and oil pressure sensor, shift indicator, and even tire pressure indicators...
That pimoroni one with a chonky bezel looks verrrrrry familiar. Echo/nest I think 🤔 nice to see oem parts getting lives outside of killed-off smarthome gadgets :)
Didn't know those existed, got my idea juices flowing
I need to see the clam shell flip rotary. I neeeeeed it!
Always liked the idea of a smart pocket watch
Hope your “screen saver” is not a fixed image. Seems counterintuitive. As a wallpaper it would be nice.
These are really nice displays, I’m having all sorts of ideas to use them!
I slipped up, meant to say my wallpaper. Was pretty tired while filming.
Moon phase display could make a really cool night light. Or a fake "porthole" into a virtual aquarium
an open source smart speaker using Mycroft and one of these to create a UI to emulate a clock + various other relevant bits of info would be pretty sick. Maybe with an AirPlay server, too.