LCD/Keypad extention for PCA10028

[Adrian Eggenberger]

I'm looking for some options to extend the PCA10028 with a keybord and a numpad. This would give great options to play around with passkey topics.

As the PCA10028 supports the Arduino pinout i guess that Arduino LCD/Keypads would be an option. But i didn't find a board that has keypad with buttons from 0 - 9 and an LCD.

Is there a recommended board? Has Nordic planed support for one of these boards?

Regards Adrian

[Audun]

Hi Adrian, if you're just looking to experiment with passkeys it would probably be quicker to set up UART on the nRF51, and use the Virtual COM port on the pca10028 to input/output passkeys to a serial terminal on your computer. Having a keypad shield would certainly be useful in many cases though, so that's a good idea!

[Asbjørn]

There are multiple LCD extensions available. The PCA10028 has the same form factor as Arduino Uno. So LCD extensions that fit into Uno will fit into PCA10028 as well.

[Adrian Eggenberger]

Hi,

Only a short roundup for this topic to close this question. I finally bought an Adafruit 2.8" TFT Touch Shield for Arduino w/Capacitive Touch. Until now I've got the TFT screen working. The screen update is really slow, because the LCD a lot of memory to fill over SPI transfers. For my purpose to visualize the status of my application and presenting keys for pairing it's doing ok.

Adrian