USB & serial LCD backpack

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Project Summary
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]

Read about the design.

Available for $16.95 at Seeed Studio.

This is a USB and serial backpack for simple HD44780 character LCD screens. It has a few nice features that set it apart from the serial-only LCD backpacks at SparkFun and Adafruit:

• USB and serial control of characters LCDs
• Supported in common software (LCD Smartie) as 'matrix orbital' display
• Adjust contrast and backlight from software
• Couple extra pins for buttons
• 500mA fuse
• USB upgradable

Contents 1 Hardware 2 Download 3 Software and drivers 4 Firmware 5 Development resources 6 Resources 7 License

Hardware

• USB and serial enabled LCD backpack design overview

Download

• LCD Backpack PIC HD44780.package.v1a
• LCD Backpack PIC HD44780.source.r1121.v1a
• Browse LCD Backpack PIC HD44780 SVN

Software and drivers

• LCD Smartie (Windows)
• LCDproc (Linux)

Firmware

• USB and serial enabled LCD backpack firmware updates

Development resources

The controller implements a (subset) of the serial interface used by common Matrix Orbital Serial LCDs.

• USB and serial LCD backpack commands

Resources

• PIC 18F2550 datasheet
• PIC 18F reference manual[PDF!]

License

• Hardware: CC-BY-SA
• Software: CC-BY-SA
• Firmware: CC-BY-SA
• Bootloader: GPL