Another Clue with bad colors

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Another Clue with bad colors

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CLue before and after gamma fix
CLue before and after gamma fix
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I've finally started playing with the Clue board in Adabox #15 (long story), and I've one of the Clues with the infamous blue screen tab and the washed out colors.
Here using purple.bmp and the example code from Carter Nelson's excellent displayio guide.
Using the gamma correction fix code from the forum: viewtopic.php?f=65&t=168145&start=60#p825486 fixes the problem

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display.bus.send(0x26, b"\x04")
when called right after display initialization.
The change doesn't persist after reset - will this fix have to be called in each CircuitPython script, or is there a way to permanently make this change? I'd like to use this board for teaching coding, and so would like the process streamlined.

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Re: Another Clue with bad colors

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Let's just replace it. Send an email to [email protected] with a link to this thread and your order number and they can send you a replacement CLUE board.

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Re: Another Clue with bad colors

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Seems a bit extreme for a firmware fix, but thank you -some child will benefit!

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Re: Another Clue with bad colors

Post by adafruit_support_carter »

No worries, we've been dealing with that issue for a while. It's still essentially a mystery. We don't consider that gamma correction hack to be an actual fix. If you want to continue doing that and using that CLUE, go ahead, it won't hurt anything. But it doesn't persists so you'd have to have a special hacked version of every code just to run on that CLUE.

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