OSCAR: The Open Screen Adapter

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Cool, but the technically similar Adafruit Qualia is already on the market for about the same price as the non-early-bird version of this.

https://www.adafruit.com/qualia

Ah, nice catch, yeah this looks like the same thing.

Yeah, the driver boards they are using aren't exactly the same but ultimately serve the same function.

I do hope this Kickstarter does well because the more options we have for driving really high resolution displays the better, and the more open they are the better, but just as a practical matter if I wanted one of these devices right now I'd order the Adafruit one -- it is currently backordered by a week or two but that beats getting the hardware in June-July (maybe, if they buck the trend of kickstarter hardware projects shipping late).

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