Here’s an interesting video about integrating a display with your microcontroller: The BASICS of Adding a Display to Your Arduino, ESP32, STM32, or other MCU Project. The graphics library he recommends is LVGL.
Tag Archives: graphics
VirtualBox display settings
Note to self: I had a problem with the GUI on my Kubuntu VM not working under VirtualBox on a Kubutnu host. I fixed the problem by changing the Graphics Controller on the VM from VBoxSVGA to VMSVGA. I have no idea what the difference is, except that the latter works and the former doesn’t!
MacBook Pro Retina resolution
So my mate CK put me onto RDM which you can use to improve the graphical resolution on your MacBook Pro Retina display. So much better.
The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel
This popped up on Hacker News today: The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel. I wonder if we can infer from this that AMD Radeon graphics cards are well supported on Linux..? I might buy one for my next workstation…
Intel Linux graphics firmware
I got this error on my Debian Stretch system:
i915 0000:00:02.0: firmware: failed to load i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_01.bin (-2)
I found instructions to fix the error here.
Microsoft UX patterns
Reading about UX patterns from Microsoft. Particularly Branding your Windows Store apps.
Raphaël—JavaScript Library
Learning about the Raphaël—JavaScript Library. This can be used to do animations and drawing in HTML documents.