I am writing a small test script to display bitmaps from GIF pictures to a VFD display using the binary mode library and Python: but when using the UART mode, it seems to me a few things are hardwired into the lib, such as the port name. Any chance I could get access to SVN and update this, so that the API is consistent for all binary mode calls using pyBusPirateLite ? Let me know if I got something wrong, of course!
I am tempted to buy a graphical VFD module such as a Noritake 3000 series to drive it with the twatch, to create a fancy VFD graphical display panel. Has anyone tried this so far?
Just a quick note to let you know that indeed, the PGC and PGD lines are "crossed" on the Bus Pirate which makes it a bit more complex to use the Pickit2: if those two pins were the other way around, you could just plug a pickit2 into the Bus Pirate directly, but sadly that's not the case. A simple adapter which crosses the PGC and PGD lines solves the issue and programming works fine afterwards...