r/ArduinoQ • u/TheLittleFastCat- • 6d ago

Display recommendations

Hello I know the Q is still quite new but do you have any recommendations for a display for the 60pin Jmedia pins on the bottom side of the Q?

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u/ripred3 6d ago edited 6d ago

arduino.cc has the Media Carrier Board that attaches to the 1.8V jmedia bus:

Arduino UNO Media Carrier

https://store-usa.arduino.cc/products/uno-media-carrier

and on the product page for that same media carrier board from another distributor here ..

https://www.robotshop.com/products/arduino-uno-media-carrier

it specifically says that it supports and works with the Waveshare 8-DSI-TOUCH-A display.

Waveshare 8-DSI-TOUCH-A display

https://www.waveshare.com/8-dsi-touch-a.htm

https://openelab.com/products/waveshare-8inch-dsi-capacitive-10

https://www.luckfox.com/8-DSI-TOUCH-A

https://core-electronics.com.au/waveshare-8-inch-dsi-touch-display-800x1280-ips.html

I'm real curious what the experience is like if you get one 🤔

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u/TheLittleFastCat- 6d ago

Thank you for recommending the media carrier, still I don't understand why Qualcomm didn't already provide these standard connectors on the Arduino into q, it feels like they really didn't want us to utilize the sbc side to it's full potential

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u/ripred3 6d ago

I agree and I wish they were more forthcoming about the upcoming Ventuino (or whatever it's called) and the product positioning and emphasis changes that has for the Uno Q

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u/TheLittleFastCat- 6d ago

I did some research and other people say most DSI waveshare display should work with the media carrier

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u/ripred3 6d ago

sweet. kinda pricy but it would open up the pipeline between the imaging-specific silicon support that the Uno Q built in and the output display. IIRC a couple of months ago when they had their Arduino Days or whatever they announced releasing driver support to directly access and use the imaging support for images/video streaming which had previously been implemented in their distro as a software-only implementation. I have not returned to the boards I have yet to test out exactly what it means but from what I saw it opened up the path between the imaging input and the display to be handled all in silicon

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u/Distinct_Crew245 5d ago

There’s an extensive exploration of the Linux graphics stack on the Uno Q I remember seeing on the Arduino forum. Here it is: https://forum.arduino.cc/t/linux-graphics-stack-on-the-arduino-uno-q/1430713

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u/Distinct_Crew245 6d ago

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u/ripred3 6d ago

I'm going to cross-post this to r/arduino to see if anyone else can benefit or contribute