Fun with AliExpress
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A guy bought a bootleg Sunton 4.3" inch off AliExpress. For those of you not familiar with it, it's basically a clearinghouse for chinese knockoffs and a good source of hard to find electronics, even if it's sketchy as hell. Anyway, he couldn't get the display working, because the thing doesn't advertise what it knocked off, did not come with schematics, nor code. Based on little more than an image and the name of the LCD controller it used I was able to find the sunton device it was clearly a copy of. Then we got the display working with the Sunton code. Now it uses a different touch controller IC than the real mccoy so I'm having the guy run an I2C scan to find out the address the device reports on. From there I will basically work my way backward to a touch driver chip. It feels a bit like old school hacking.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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A guy bought a bootleg Sunton 4.3" inch off AliExpress. For those of you not familiar with it, it's basically a clearinghouse for chinese knockoffs and a good source of hard to find electronics, even if it's sketchy as hell. Anyway, he couldn't get the display working, because the thing doesn't advertise what it knocked off, did not come with schematics, nor code. Based on little more than an image and the name of the LCD controller it used I was able to find the sunton device it was clearly a copy of. Then we got the display working with the Sunton code. Now it uses a different touch controller IC than the real mccoy so I'm having the guy run an I2C scan to find out the address the device reports on. From there I will basically work my way backward to a touch driver chip. It feels a bit like old school hacking.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
I wouldn't put too much effort into it - in my experience, Chinese electronics have the same shelf life as cheesecake ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I wouldn't put too much effort into it - in my experience, Chinese electronics have the same shelf life as cheesecake ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
It depends on the vendor honestly. Makerfabs makes quality kit. So does Espressif.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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It depends on the vendor honestly. Makerfabs makes quality kit. So does Espressif.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
The vendor of the electronics or the vendor of the cheesecake?
cheers Chris Maunder
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The vendor of the electronics or the vendor of the cheesecake?
cheers Chris Maunder
Cheesecake? :confused: The electronics definitely.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Cheesecake? :confused: The electronics definitely.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
Griff posted "in my experience, Chinese electronics have the same shelf life as cheesecake ..." and you said "It depends on the vendor honestly" and then I was thinking about cheesecake and relative shelf life. Because I'm hungry and would kill for a decent cheesecake about now. But it would really depend on the vendor...
cheers Chris Maunder
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Griff posted "in my experience, Chinese electronics have the same shelf life as cheesecake ..." and you said "It depends on the vendor honestly" and then I was thinking about cheesecake and relative shelf life. Because I'm hungry and would kill for a decent cheesecake about now. But it would really depend on the vendor...
cheers Chris Maunder
Hahaha, I missed it. I'm really distracted. Talking to an old friend on the phone.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Griff posted "in my experience, Chinese electronics have the same shelf life as cheesecake ..." and you said "It depends on the vendor honestly" and then I was thinking about cheesecake and relative shelf life. Because I'm hungry and would kill for a decent cheesecake about now. But it would really depend on the vendor...
cheers Chris Maunder
Oh yeah ... a good cheesecake is a thing of rare beauty.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Hahaha, I missed it. I'm really distracted. Talking to an old friend on the phone.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
Against my (better) judgement I cannot help to chime in. There was a time when war ravaged country recovered, with US help, and started competing with cheap and shoddy products. "They " soon realized that shoddy products where not selling and made a real cool stuff - likes cameras...and cars...boom boxes... Most businessmen are "smarter then an average bear " to realize that quality sells in the long run, they pay very little attention to narrow-minded opinions about "cheesecakes"- they will figure it out sooner or later. On more serious note I often wonder if the "problem" with electronic is "intellectual property" or US inability to actually manage the production - technologically and financially... I guess I just keep wondering and buy what I need from whomever is selling it... Yes - solid state electronic has a shelf life.... psst wanna buy a bridge ? cheap...
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Against my (better) judgement I cannot help to chime in. There was a time when war ravaged country recovered, with US help, and started competing with cheap and shoddy products. "They " soon realized that shoddy products where not selling and made a real cool stuff - likes cameras...and cars...boom boxes... Most businessmen are "smarter then an average bear " to realize that quality sells in the long run, they pay very little attention to narrow-minded opinions about "cheesecakes"- they will figure it out sooner or later. On more serious note I often wonder if the "problem" with electronic is "intellectual property" or US inability to actually manage the production - technologically and financially... I guess I just keep wondering and buy what I need from whomever is selling it... Yes - solid state electronic has a shelf life.... psst wanna buy a bridge ? cheap...
I think there's been a misunderstanding. As I said to Griff originally, it all depends on the vendor. AliExpress however, does no quality checking. They are just a clearinghouse for retailing stuff from China. The vendors, well it depends. There are a lot of vendors who make knockoff gear. A lot of them sell on AliExpress. But, there are good vendors out of China as I said, like Espressif, Makerfabs, and if I'm being generous, Lilygo. So it just depends, pretty much like anywhere else, but for volume - China produces a LOT of stuff.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Against my (better) judgement I cannot help to chime in. There was a time when war ravaged country recovered, with US help, and started competing with cheap and shoddy products. "They " soon realized that shoddy products where not selling and made a real cool stuff - likes cameras...and cars...boom boxes... Most businessmen are "smarter then an average bear " to realize that quality sells in the long run, they pay very little attention to narrow-minded opinions about "cheesecakes"- they will figure it out sooner or later. On more serious note I often wonder if the "problem" with electronic is "intellectual property" or US inability to actually manage the production - technologically and financially... I guess I just keep wondering and buy what I need from whomever is selling it... Yes - solid state electronic has a shelf life.... psst wanna buy a bridge ? cheap...
jana_hus wrote:
wanna buy a bridge ?
I have that album ;-)
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jana_hus wrote:
wanna buy a bridge ?
I have that album ;-)
Where is that confounded bridge!? "The Crunge" Led Zeppelin, Houses of the Holy. 1973
