[ale] linux friendly cheep hardware...

[Mike Panetta]

A serial interface (presumably with a powersupply circuit, although I do
not know for sure) can be baught from Jameco and probably others.  Just
do a web search for "Serial LCD Backpack".  Scott edwards electronics I
think has them too (www.seetron.com I think).

Mike

On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 18:59, Christopher R. Curzio wrote:
> I think he was referring to a flatscreen LCD display. In any case, your
> reference to Matrix Orbital's website has sparked a renewed interest in
> the LCDs you're talking about. 
> 
> I have one that I bought on eBay last year, and I believe it's a 40x2 LCD
> display. It says 8v on the back, and has a 14 pin plug on the reverse.
> There are 5 chips on the back. 4 of them say "HD44100H" and the fifth says
> "HD44780A00". I'm assuming these are Hitachi. 
> 
> Does anyone know how difficult it is to build both a power unit and serial
> interface for this thing?
> 
> -- 
> Christopher R. Curzio     |  Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax
> http://www.accipiter.org  |  si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
> :wq!
> 
> 
> Thus Spake "Jordi S. Bunster" <j.bunster at earthlink.net>:
> 13 Aug 2002 21:15:20 -0400
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 19:59, Stephen Turner wrote:
> > > hey, i was wanting an lcd but not an expensive one, something that
> > > linux would like and be happy with, i was looking for a black and
> > > white or monochrome lcd to run a normal run of the mill distro on but
> > > without the gui interface, just console :) havent seen many around
> > > other than the calculator kind. any suggestions? previous experiences?
> > > 
> > 
> > Like the ones that Matrix Orbital sells? That kind of led?
> > 
> > I recently posted an OT in which I'm selling things. One of the things
> > I'm selling, has one of this inside. One line with about 30 characters
> > or so.
> > 
> >  -- Jsb
> > 
> > 
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