Exotic Round Displays and How to Use Them
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Circular displays are here! Round screens aren’t exactly useful for productivity, but are too cool to pass buy. Today I’m breaking down a few common varieties to show you how easy it is to get them running with an Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and a regular PC running Windows. All of the displays I've found are linked below.
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0:00 Round Introduction
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2:50 Arduino Compatible 1.28" LCD
4:26 Raspberry Pi Compatible 2.1" LCD with Touchscreen
6:00 OEM 3.4" LCD with HDMI
8:28 OEM 5" LCD with HDMI
11:30 Playing Portal 2 and Minecraft on the Round 5" Display
12:55 Circular Display Project Ideas
Amazon - Waveshare 1.28” GC9A01, IPS, SPI control, documented libraries
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Datasheet www.buydisplay.com/download/i...
Library - github.com/PaintYourDragon/Ad...
CAD File - drive.google.com/drive/folder...
DFRobot round - Cheapest option, SPI control, slow refresh rate, but compact
www.dfrobot.com/product-1794....
CrystalFontz - Crispy OLED, mmall, monochrome, requires IO breakout, common controller
www.crystalfontz.com/product/...
4d systems - OEM units from Oz, integrated controller with a proprietary, but easy to use language that allows for external control by another host (Arduino libraries available), several flavors available at different price points. Most documented round display I’m aware of.
4dsystems.com.au/sk-pixxilcd-...
Pimoroni - Raspberry Pi ready! The st7789 chip is well documented and can also be used with microcontrollers. The Hyperpixel version is easy to use.
St7789 shop.pimoroni.com/products/1-...
2.1” 480x480 Hyperpixel Round shop.pimoroni.com/products/hy...
I had trouble getting it to run with my setup:(Pi 4 B+ running 32-bit PiOS Oct-30 release), but it was a quick fix
In “/boot/config.txt
“dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d” had to be updated to “dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d” to work. See here:
forums.raspberrypi.com/viewto...
Aliexpress - Larger OEM displays with HDMI input. You can find even more bizarre displays at these stores too, so they're worth a browse:
3.4” 800 x 800
www.aliexpress.com/item/10050...
5” 1080x1080
wisecoco.en.alibaba.com/produ...
CAD Files - drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Elliptical LCD:
www.aliexpress.com/item/33006...
Octagonal LCD:
www.aliexpress.com/item/10050...
23.6” Circular LCD
www.digitalview.com/blog/23-6... - Věda a technologie
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...
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
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
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
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
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
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 🤔
They're honestly very pretty. just super eye catching having such a thin bezel and a truly round display.
This channel is a true gem. I really look forward to you blowing up. you and your content are engaging and fun. Glad i subbed
Thank you very much, Anders
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...
This is one of the most informative channels I've ever seen and this is the 1st episode I've watched. Been dreaming of a chanel like this. I've subscribed suddenly
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
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
Big fan of the time stamps, keep it up
Love these kind of videos. Subbed!
Dude I LOVE your sense of humor!
Btw i really like your videos, you deserve way more subscribers for this quality content
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
subscribed! really cool stuff
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
This is very helpful man. Thank you! I have been wanting to make a Titanfall Data Knife for years!
Nice video, keep it up, thank you :)
your videos style makes it feel like an oficial aperture labs commercial video and i love it so much
7:35
"i didnt planet but ... "
fixed that missed opportunity for you
That 1.28" screen would go really well with the Adafruit GEMMA v2.
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".
That's amazing!!
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 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!
Finaly found it thankyou for making this
Great stuff. Didn’t know that these exist.
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!
Love the flip rotary phone idea!
As a big Portal 2 fan, I love what you are doing with these.
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?
Amazing !!!
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)
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
I could see these being used for Mechanicus costumes.
Rounded shapes also work with art deco designs as well
i loved the ghost in a shell smile :D
Solar system with real life clips :D
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!
Perfect for a digital clock and a circular calendar that I have been thinking of - good for anything time-related really
Awesome!
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!
These look pretty cool! I don't know what I'd do with one, maybe someday I'll need one for something
It would be cool to run a battleship game (make it look like a porthole)...with polar coordinates!
Hell yeah!
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.
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...
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.
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
Cool to see this is available. You should see how well it works with a round UI like android wear OS
As HUGE stargatefan would be cool to have stargate that shows different worlds in the bookshelf
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!
Yes, please. I've been looking in to round displays lately too
Thanks alot! This is the video exactly what I needed! very organized and well explained! I have never worked with raspberry pi and is the process hard? (to display your own video??) which programm do I need to have to work with Rasberry pi 2,1” lcd touchscreen?
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.
It's insane how the planet LOOKS like a round, bubble type lens but it's just that good looking
Hi , I have a monochrome DXQ608-X04 MIPI display and a Toshiba TC358870 chip based adapter to HDMI . The desktop PC recognize the display correctly , but have nothing on display . I did check cables seems all OK . Don't you have tips how to configure or what to look for ?.
Nice overview
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!
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.
Well ... Lady Penelope's compact/communicator sprung to mind. FAB.
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.
Cool video! ^_^ What is the 04 marking on the biggest display? Is it from the protective foil? 12:25
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.
Nice making smartwatch!👍
What's the transition at 12:01 called? Is that a Film Impact, Adobe, Resolve thing or what?
any info on video formatting. i cannot get this to play. its got the drivers to autoplay off sd card (built in sd slot and drivers on board), but they manufacturers dont have any info on the site.
That old timey thing, looks like a make-up compact. Model it with the rotary dial, for a retro videophone.
* Winner! *
I was thinking of using the Pimoroni screen to make a rotary phone as well
and here is an Idea for the big round display
how about a magic rounded mirror ?
Very nice
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.
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.
I really love the idea of a navigation pod. Like a little dash mounted android auto system in the round form factor.
"What's he gonna game first?"
Portal 2. I don't know what else I was expecting.
Love it. Are the touchscreen versions able to be programmed to act as timers/counters as well?
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.
A clam shell flip phone! That is so novel haha I like the sounds of it, would Love to see a proto-type!!
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.
hey mr.volt. where did you get these??
/s
Always liked the idea of a smart pocket watch
I love the idea of hooking up a visualizer for the speaker output of a google home or alexa to something like this, HAL 9000 style. Also, kinda counts, but you should totally look up the "Gakken World Eye", it's a specialized semi-spherical display. I think it's not super high rez, because it's built as a novelty, but still a neat product.
Didn't know those existed, got my idea juices flowing
I SAW THAT MESSAGE BRO!
STILL EXCITED!😁😁
This would make for a truly amazing case mounted info panel.
It would be awesome to see one of these used to "recreate" a Warehouse 13 Farnsworth!
Great video! plus now you can play Portal 2 on Wheatley : D
Ok but square space would’ve been a HILARIOUS sponsor
love the use of the Laughing Man icon
I noticed a glass "half sphere" on your desk early in the video. How does the image look with that on top of the screen? I'm wondering how a spinning Mars image would look under that. Would it look at all 3D, or just horribly distorted?
instead of the hdmi connected to a computer, is it possible to us an sd card so it shows a picture or video?
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.
No corner, no corner vulnerability, it's genius.
So I have a very important question. Can this screen be connected to a night eagle 3 camera and the screen display the video from the camera? Also the running boards for the screen have to be small
would you do a run for these screens? I ask because I know ordering bulk it can be cheaper for the units and also the shipping. I had an idea of making port holes like on a boat and having animations play off a Pi. I was also thinking of getting a divers helmet and putting the 5" one in the middle with a video of someone having fish swim around their head.
This is perfect for a seemingly normal "analog" clock that displays Rick Roll at 3AM
On the 3.4 inch diplay, is it possible to fold the circuitry underneatch? So that the display can be enclosed in a circular housing?
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 :)