[fun time] M5Stack cardputer effed up

 

 

Screen screwed. How did this happen? I just touched it while trying to move the cardputer, not even with a 'hard' grip! Indeed the display there is frigging fragile also there is ZERO protection - engineering failure or simply they just want to avoid the extra cost of a few ...cents (?) in order to put a piece of transparent plastic on top of the TFT (FFS really)

 

The bad news: the TFT part of cardputer is not avail, esp as I read on subreddit .

Fortunately, there is a compatible TFT display, that works with the M5Stack Stick.

You can find it usually on the web as "Display Module 135x240 SPI Interface ST7789V 1.14in", keep in mind you will need the 8pin version, alas comes with a shorter ribbon cable.
So I bit the bullet and ordered that, and also an 8pin FPC ribbon extension cable along with an FPC coupler.

I think that if you can't find an FPC coupler you can use two 8pin FPC connectors soldered together, after all its just 8pins not 80 to solder..

Work in progress..

 

 to be update when parts arrive!

Notes:

• M5Stack useless support, no part avail so think well before buy this IoT !!

• FPC extension not quite compatible with the current setup, the FFC extension cable that I got is bit thinner (different manufacturers).

 

yeah!!! It is possible to fix the darn thing....

(oh btw... the displays came from China into a thin bag like crap... FFS some people)

 

 

fix annoying auto-save of PDFs on firefox

 Mozilla crackhead-devs setup by DEFAULT to save any online PDF you open, so in fact this is spamming your Downloads folder with unwanted crap. 

Solution: 

set browser.download.open_pdf_attachments_inline (about:config) to TRUE