The Nextion HMI
Hello all, Been a while. I know I say this all the time, but I really will try to post more stuff with more regularity as well. Thus, I've returned with this comeback post! *evil laugh* A couple of months ago, I stumbled on IteadStudio's Nextion IndieGoGo campaign. Their pitch was simple: we all know how much of a pain it is getting GUIs onto embedded systems in a reasonably-priced and sensible manner, so we've come up with our Nextion HMI (human machine interface). I was intrigued by the idea and paid for one of the cheaper perks. I received the screen two or three months ago but hadn't really gotten round to examining it properly, not until a few days ago. Essentially, the Nextion line is a series of resistive touch-capable TFT screens bundled with a UI development environment, making it possible to design flexible UIs on your computer, then deploy them to the screen itself over a simple serial connection (to clarify, you'll need a USB to Serial adapter to co...