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The Velleman K8101 SELF-ASSEMBLY electronic kit enables you to add another screen to your computer so you can display the information you want - even if your main screen is off!
Features- 4 downloadable example programs with source code supplied
- Twitter Display: displays the incoming feeds
- Mail Display: shows incoming mail subjects
- Drive Display: shows info of your HDD
- Eyes Display: mouse movement and click animation
- DLL supplied to easily code your own applications (VB.net - C#)
- 1 Button with 2 programmable functions (short & long press)
- Equipped with a buzzer that can be configured through software
- A test program (with source code) can also be downloaded to test all functions of the kit (button, backlight, buzzer, LCD draw routines)
- Available commands:
- Send images to the display (.BMP 128x64)
- Draw or erase pixels
- Draw or erase a square
- Draw or erase a line
- Activate the buzzer by sending a beep amount (0-255)
- Activate the backlight by sending an "ON-time" (0-254 sec / 255 = always on)
- Send small or big text
- Change the contrast
- Invert the display
- Clear everything but the background image
- Clear everything
- Do something on a short button press
- Do something on a long button press
Specifications- LED - Backlight (white)
- LCD resolution: 128 x 64 pixels
- USB powered
- Max. power consumption: 35 mA
- dimensions: 77.5 x 60.5 x 38 mm (3.05" x 2.4" x 1.5")
- Product format: SELF-ASSEMBLY electronic kit ( Product Formats Info)
- Velleman K8101 Datasheet Product information about the USB message board
- Velleman K8101 Driver installation guide How to install the driver for the K8101
- Velleman K8101 Parts list English assembly instructions through illustrations, pictures, etc
- Velleman K8101 Assembly instructions Written multilingual manual explaining how to build the kit
- Velleman K8101 setup file Installation package including several sample programs with source code
(Twitter display, Mail display, Drive display, Eyes display)
A test program (with source code) to test all functions of the kit (button, backlight, buzzer, ...) is also included - Velleman Kits USB Driver Generic driver for the following range of products: K8090, K8019, K8018, MK193, K8101, K8097 and K8096.
This driver is compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows (2000/XP/Vista/7/8)
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