[ale] linux friendly cheep hardware...

[Calvin Harrigan]

It's not difficult at all.  I used one in my car mp3 player I built a 
couple years ago.  Think that one was a 20x4.  Everything is done for you 
all you have to do is provide power (5-12v)  a regulator is built into most 
of them.  And a standard serial cable.  You can even modify the cable to 
supply power to the unit.  It's controlled via ascii text at a selectable 
baud rate.  Worked fine to 19200 in my case.


At 09:59 PM 8/13/02 -0400, 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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