Johnathan Hottell wanted a way to monitor and display the temperature readings at various points around the engine on his LB7 Duramax diesel truck. He developed this project for a six channel temperature monitor employing a bank of thermistors to … Read more
Francisco Malpartida, an Arduino enthusiast from Spain, has posted a new liquidCrystal library for Arduino. The main differences are a claimed increase in speed of LCD operations and the ability to control the LCD display via an I2C bus expander … Read more
Greeeg tipped us of to some cheap $3 1.3” 96X68 monochrome LCDs. They have a solderable connector with a manageable pitch of 0.6mm. A simple I2C interface protocol is used to interface with these LCDs. These are Displays from ebay … Read more
Hak80r has been busy disemboweling electronic stuff lately. His latest is a cracked Bravia LCD TV. There’s lots of pictures, users with a slow connections be advised. Via the forum.
TIDeals has announced two year end specials. “First up is the Stellaris Ethernet-enabled Intelligent Display Module with PoE RDK. Basically, this little number is the Stellaris Intelligent Display Reference Design Kit (RDK-IDM), and it offers a complete, open-tool graphical touch-screen … Read more
Simpleavr writes to inform us of his project using the TI Launchpad to play “bad apple” on a Nokia 5110 LCD breakout. This was his entry into the 43Oh project of the month contest. He notes that the Launchpad can … Read more
The Global Keyboard Open Standard (GKOS) is an ongoing project to implement the full qwerty keyboard on a set of 6 keys. It is intended for use with tiny wireless terminals in order to minimize the space requirements. The standard … Read more
Here is a hack that will let you use some 5v HD44780 LCDs at 3V. On some common LCDs you can short the resistor labeled R7 and interface with the LCD at 3.3V. Via the forum.
Small character LCDs can show new mail stats, system performance, news feeds, and more. The USB and Serial LCD backpack connects HD44780-compatible character LCD screens to your USB (or serial) port. Almost every open source hardware shop sells some type … Read more
Rickey’s World has an interesting collection of information on interfacing LCDs to MCUs. Beginners will find a lot of information here on the use of standard HD44780 LCD displays, including the basics as well as the generation of custom characters. … Read more
The Altera DE1 is an educational and development board based on the Cyclone II 2C20 FPGA and is commonly used in college and university courses on digital logic and FPGAs. Kiran writes to inform us of her tutorial on interfacing … Read more
The Gadget Factory has a new Arduino library that lets you take Arduino code written for LCD displays, change 3 lines of code, and convert it to VGA output: The VGALiquidCrystal library converts sketches that will run on an HD44780 … Read more
Xilinx has an application note explaining how to use LCD modules with a CPLD. CoolRunner-II CPLDs can be used to control dot-matrix liquid crystal display (LCD) modules. The low-power characteristics of LCD modules make them an ideal complement to the … Read more
The idea that LEDs can act as light detectors as well as emitters is well known. Now researchers at UCLA are looking at LCDs with an eye toward using them to produce electric energy in addition to functioning as your … Read more
Jersagfast from The Custom Geek developed this tic tac toe game using an Arduino and a Adafruit 2.8″ TFT touchshield. He describes: It’s pretty basic tic tac toe, and has score tracking, game logic (you can’t go twice in a … Read more
follower presents his project using a USB accessory to create a “dual screen” Nexus One with SMS notification & time display. Besides the Nexus One phone, the hardware consists of an Arduino Duemilanove with ATmega328, a SparkFun USB Host Shield … Read more
Dino at hacked a laser range finder this week: I decided to test mine on an Arduino and build a setup that could be mounted to the back of my vehicle as a backup proximity warning device. Something that would … Read more
Big Mess o’ Wires’ posted a roundup of small, low power LCDs for MCU projects. Sometimes it seems like there are a million different LCDs you might use with your microcontroller project, and deciding on one can be hard. Once … Read more
Joseph Swanson from swantron likes working with the command line. He also likes working with the Arduino. So he came up with this simple project which takes the results of his command line entries and directs them over the Linux … Read more
Here’s a project by Everett Robinson which demonstrates how to use an Arduino, Ethernet shield, 2×16 LCD, a breadboard and 2K resistor to produce a web-controlled interactive LCD display. The Arduino generates a simple HTML web page showing the text … Read more
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