BW 3.5" Composite Display - Variant 2

[gnarlynick]

Other question for better forum etiquette, how do I hide the uploaded images in a drop down menu so loading my posts with heavy amounts of images like this one don't kill load times for some people? I've tried the [spoiler=][/spoiler] command but am not using it correctly apparently.

[DirtyBullets]

normaly i host them from my server and hyperlink them over, but bare in mind i keep them 800x600 so the files are lite and if people request higher res i just make the image clickable so it shows the raw res size,
just to link image like from imger provides the link code but to add your own from elsewhere use

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[img]http://www.mylink.com/filename.jpg[/img]

to make a clickable image from small to display and to a large raw res is

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[url=http://www.mylink.com/FullResImage.jpg][img]http://www.mylink.com/800x600ResImage.jpg[/img][/url]

[gnarlynick]

normaly i host them from my server and hyperlink them over, but bare in mind i keep them 800x600 so the files are lite and if people request higher res i just make the image clickable so it shows the raw res size,
just to link image like from imger provides the link code but to add your own from elsewhere use

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[img]http://www.mylink.com/filename.jpg[/img]

to make a clickable image from small to display and to a large raw res is

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[url=http://www.mylink.com/FullResImage.jpg][img]http://www.mylink.com/800x600ResImage.jpg[/img][/url]

Thank you sir, I shall work on implementing this as I am finding navigating my photo-heavy posts is proving to be bothersome, let alone to anybody else.

[gnarlynick]

I can now confirm two things:

1.) A button board can be made for those displays without one.

2.) The settings are retained between power cycles.

Because of these findings, I only needed to make one button board to fine tune each display and won't need to include one in the final build. Each button needs a resistor placed on it, a 2K Ohm (202), 4.7K Ohm (472) & 1K Ohm (102). This is how the display control board differentiates each button press.
[spoiler="Button Board"]I Can now adjust the Brightness, Contrast, Saturation & Tint of the display. I found by default, the contrast was really high and washed out some of the text. The settings are retained between power cycles so I can fine tune it and remove the button board for the final build.

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Front of the custom button board I made for the LCD Display:
-I connected the positive legs of the tac buttons to the positive sequence above them.
-I connected a negative leg of the tac buttons to a resistor which is connected to the negative sequence below them.

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Rear of the custom button board I made for the LCD Display:
-I connected the positive line in sequence.
-I connected the negative legs of the tac buttons together.
-I connected the negative line in sequence.

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I removed the JST connector on the side of the display control board (BW 3.5" TFT LCD Composite Display, Variant 2 from the wiki). Wired the pos & neg wires from the button board to the pos & neg pads on the display control board and booted up.

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