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Santa came early this year and brought me a S65-Shield revision 1.2 from watterott

S65 displaying random text

It consists of :

- a Siemens S65 16-bit color screen with 172×136 pixels

- a rotary switch (left-right-press)

- a micro-SD slot (bottom)

S65 bottom

You can visit the project page to check progress made to the libraries and hardware.The most recent library is v0.08 . It’s actually more like 3 libraries:  ‘S65Display’, ‘RotaryEncoder’ and ‘SDCard’.

You can check the documentation that comes with the libraries to view this baby shields’ possibilities. So far this shield seems to be a bargain (compaired to other display-shields out there) selling at only €35 that’s equal to $51.36600 or 4640.5276 Japanese  Yen or 149.793533 Polish Zloty or your virginity if you’re misfortuned enough to live in one of those countries, anyhow.

It has some pretty long headers which make it easy to mount on top of the tallest board you own.

S65 mating with Duemilanove

I don’t have a microSD card at hand so I can’t test the SDCard library for now. Which sucks since you can load images stored on the microSD and display them on the screen. You can also use the images for buttons, icons, etc in your sketches… how cool is that?

Here’s an example of the awsome S65-Shield in action on an Arduino Duemilanove with 328 Atmel running a Game of Life sketch. I am not the author of this code, he gave me the code for testing and learning purposes. I just added the rotary delay. Maybe he’ll give his consent later so I can post the code online.

The display and colors look much better in real life, this video is shot with a digital camera under crappy light conditions.

From the moment I got this, about the same time yesterday, till now I’ve thaught of a gazillion cool projects in which this shield can be of use. Check back regularly to see what I mean.

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