Does SFE have any plans to make a small breakout board for the [Graphic LCD 84x48 - Nokia 3310 similar to this [Color LCD Adapter?
Such a board would make experimenting with the display using a breadboard so much easier. 
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I was thinking about making one myself and having it fabbed, but there are a few details to iron out. First I’ll brag about the high points: it’d have a footprint for a 28 pin PIC with some minor support for a crystal (only one) and a few parts for PWM dimming of the backlight and a couple choices for a serial interface.
Now for the downside. There are at least three different configurations or the same LCD that I know of, two with elastomer and one with spring contacts. The two with elastomer have different positions for the prongs on the bracket. The spring contacts are incompatible with the elastomer’s footprint. I wouldn’t be able to cover all bases, but if I went with the most common one I’d be ahead.
Something else, a customer option would be a choice of backlight color. If you (SF) do it, will you give it ears for mounting?
Anyone have any luck with this display yet? I’ve finally got wires onto the connector so that I can begin testing with it.
Do you know if its possible to actually get a connector for this thing?
Anyway, I bought two, one I took straight apart removing all the framing etc… and the connector popped right off the glass. I thought it was supposed to be glued on? It seems the plastic frame holds everything together… Ugh.
Any clue on how I could get the connector seated again? I guess with some super glue perhaps. It’s hard to line it up, haha.
Anyway, with the other one I attached wires to the connector pins so that I can interface it. Now just to hook it up and interface it…
I’ve no experience with the one sold here. I’ve only messed with ones straight from the 'phone. Very few of them have the springy fingers, and those are just stockpiled. I kept enough of the original PCB to seat the screens.
With the two I’ve kissed with the iron, I’ve found one right and one wrong way. The first one I tried to lay wires across the contacts and solder them on, then sand them flattish. No good. The lump was too big to make reliable contact.
The second one I used the smallest drill that would open the vias enough to push a fine gauge (whatever the wire-wrap wire I have is) through. There was still some metal in the holes and the solder bonded to it. The lump on the contact side was then filed flat. That one worked well.
That much done, I also tried two methods for connectors. With the first I tried a 2*5 header socket with the assumption that whatever support components I needed would be on the host. Big mistake. I also couldn’t remember which order I put the pins.
On the second one I glued (jb-weld) a single wide header with long pins to one edge. I kept the pins in the same order as the LCD, and bypassed the oscillator override. I gave it the capacitors it needed and bent the pins slightly to allow easier viewing when plugged into a breadboard.