[NTLK] Newton display replacement - with different display?

[Greg Goodwin]

You know what I'd like to see?   A replacement LED backlight that you 
can select the color.  :D

Greg / Doc Clu


On 7/1/25 11:41 AM, Matthias Melcher wrote:
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>> On 1. Jul 2025, at 17:24, Jim Witte <jim.witte at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> This is probably answered somewhere, I've been off NTLK for a decade now..
>> What type of display does the MP2000 use in terms of electrical interface?
>> Could the protocol from the display cable itself be "massaged" with
>> something like a Raspberry Pi to allow a different display to be used in
>> the form factor of the original case?  (Possibly with a bit more height
>> needed for the components - 3D printing a different back would be easy
>> enough.)
>>
>> An E-ink display would be interesting.  How fast is the current E-ink
>> display's "waveform generator" that figures out how to change pixels?
> Hi Jim,
>
> yes, there has been a lot going on, mostly in seceret tunnels under the Düsseldorf river bridge. But evry so often, there is a glipse into those caverns:
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> https://youtu.be/Q1Ef7FQeF78?t=657
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> All the relevant data about the internal display port is in the Einstein Wiki:
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> https://github.com/pguyot/Einstein/wiki/Internal-LCD-Port
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> EPDiy is one possibe approch at running an EPaper display:
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> https://github.com/vroland/epdiy
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> All kinds of 6" ePaper displays are a surprisingly good fir for teh MP2x00, but there are a few LCD and OLED displays that could work aswell.
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> For example, the 6-Zoll-ED060XD4(LF)C1-00 eink has frontlight and touch built in. The digital interface is relatively easy, but the display needs four or five esoteric voltages whereas an LCD needs only 5V.
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> Or to put it short, yes, all that is very feasible.
>
>   - Matthias
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