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nice!view on 4-pin PCBs

A photolog by beekeeb: putting nice!view displays on a 4-pin PCB.

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Published October 14, 2022
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The nice!view, this low-power, high refresh rate OLED display replacement by Nicell was featured last week.

As described in the nice!view documentation, this 5-pin display can also be used on PCBs made for 4-pins OLED screens.

The trick is a little handwiring, and beekeeb posted some photos on the process.

Check out the full post here.

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Published on Fri 14th Oct 2022. Featured in KBD #99 (source).


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