Flexible OLED panels have been standard in smartphones for years, but getting one to work with a Raspberry Pi or other single-board computer has remained impractical. DFRobot is tackling that gap with a 6.67-inch flexible AMOLED display that connects over standard HDMI, thanks to an included MIPI-to-HDMI driver board built around the ICNA3511A converter chip. The result is a 2400x1080 panel, just 1.2 mm thick, that can bend to wrap around curved surfaces and fit into tight enclosures.
The display itself is essentially a smartphone-grade AMOLED, delivering 450 cd/m² brightness, 16.7 million colors, and the deep blacks you get from individually lit pixels with no backlight. Its active area measures 15.5 x 7.0 cm (6.1 x 2.7 inches) in a 20:9 aspect ratio, and it runs at a 50Hz refresh rate. A two-board design handles the conversion: the main driver board takes HDMI input and converts it to MIPI DSI, while a smaller adapter board bridges the signal to the panel's high-density board-to-board snap connector, the kind normally found inside phones and notoriously difficult to work with directly. Power comes from a standard 5V supply through the driver board. Because all the MIPI translation happens on the driver board itself, the display enumerates as a standard HDMI monitor under Linux with no additional drivers or kernel configuration required, making it immediately usable with Raspberry Pi OS, Armbian, and other common SBC distributions out of the box.
Beyond Raspberry Pi, the display works with any HDMI-equipped SBC, including boards from Orange Pi and Banana Pi, as well as x86 platforms like LattePanda running full Linux distributions. DFRobot positions it for robotics (think expressive robot faces), wearable prototypes, industrial HMI panels, and curved automotive consoles. One important caveat: the panel can only bend horizontally, not vertically, as vertical flexing risks damaging it. The operating temperature range spans -20°C to 60°C (-4°F to 140°F).
The 6.67-inch flexible AMOLED display is available now for $199 (€183), with volume pricing dropping to $183 (€168) for orders of ten or more units.
