Serial LCD project - Based on LCDterm

[striker_gt]

Ok dudes I have the following components:

16x2 display HD4470 compatible with 16pins
PIC16F84A
4 MHz Crystal
Resistors and capacitors
JDM Programmer

I want to use this circuit to check my temps, winamp and stuff with LCDSmartie program:

http://www.bobblick.com/techref/project ... dterm.html

http://www.bobblick.com/techref/project ... cdterm.pdf


This is one LCD that I used with my old mobo and LPT port:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5P6NQT8lkA

I'm working on the serial interface for LCD Smartie:



I'm kind of newbie and I need to adapt the circuit to my own needs.

Any help appreciated

[mattcro]

Bob Blick's terminal is designed to be used as a simple serial terminal, whereas the Matrix Orbital, Crystalfontz and similar LCD modules are designed to be driven with special commands of the sort LCD Smartie produces.

I looked at his terminal project before deciding to roll my own Matrix Orbital compatible display based on a PIC16F628. Details of mine are here: http://forums.lcdsmartie.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=501 You should be able to program a 16F628/A with the HEX file from that thread, or modify the source and compile with the free HiTech C compiler. I used to use this for work, but have moved over to AVRs now so haven't done anything with this project for ages. My LCD unit is still going strong though...