sharp memory lcd module brands

Our friends over at Adafruit have made this nifty, little breakout using one of SHARP"s silver monochrome memory displays. This little board houses a 1.3", 96x96 screen that performs similarly to an e-paper display with its ultra-low power usage and an LCD with its fast-refresh rates. The SHARP Memory Display does not include a backlight and is readable in daylight but you may need a little assistance reading it in the dark with an external light source.

Here a Memory LCD display, it is a cross between an eInk (e-paper) and an LCD display. This product is the 1.3" 168x144 SHARP Memory LCD featuring and ultra-low power usage of eInk together with the fast-refresh rates of an LCD.

This display has a gray background and black-on-gray pixels. This combination offers a nice reader type display with good reading contrast. This display does not have a backlight but it is daylight readable (on dark/night situation, you will need to illuminate the LCD area with external LEDs to read it).

The display is "write only", so only 3 wires will be needed to to send data (clock, data in and ChipSelect). This also means that you must store the entire image of the display inside the microcontroler memory (into buffer). As the screen makes 168x144, this represent 168x144 bits (3 KB) that must be buffered by the microcontroller driver.