USB & serial LCD backpack
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Revision as of 08:22, 15 June 2016
The USB and Serial LCD backpack connects HD44780-compatible character LCD screens to your USB port.
Available for $16.95 at Seeed Studio.
Contents |
Features
Project Summary | |
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Name: | USB & serial LCD backpack |
Buy it: | Get one for $16.95 at Seeed Studio |
Price: | $16.95 |
Status: | Test production |
Manufacturing: | Shipping |
Forum: | USB & serial LCD backpack 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 port. It has a few nice features that set it apart from the serial-only LCD backpacks available for the same price:
- USB and serial control of characters LCDs
- Supported in common software (LCD Smartie, LCD Proc) as 'matrix orbital' display
- Adjust backlight from software, optionally contrast
- Couple extra pins for buttons
- 500mA fuse
- USB upgradable
Hardware
How-to
Software
- LCD Smartie (Windows)
- LCDproc (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin and Solaris)
Firmware
Development resources
The controller implements a (subset) of the serial interface used by common Matrix Orbital Serial LCDs.
Download
- LCD Backpack PIC HD44780.package.v1a
- LCD Backpack PIC HD44780.source.r1121.v1a
- Browse LCD Backpack PIC HD44780 SVN
Resources
- PIC 18F2550 datasheet
- PIC 18F reference manual [PDF!]
- Microchip C18 C compiler
- Microchip USB stack
- Diolan USB PIC bootloader
- PIC LCD Backpack manufacturing resources
License
- Hardware: CC-BY-SA
- Software: CC-BY-SA
- Firmware: CC-BY-SA
- Bootloader: GPL