my lcd

lucas_siglo21 · Post by **lucas_siglo21** » October 12th, 2008, 6:49 pm

behold my new lcd:

it looks better in real life than in a picture
if you press the button you can see the time and date

Post by **mattcro** » October 14th, 2008, 1:05 pm

Yeah! That's proper hardware hacking stuff. Is that a toggle switch on the right side (backlight switch)? Is it connected via parallel port?

lucas_siglo21 · Post by **lucas_siglo21** » October 14th, 2008, 9:36 pm

that switch is the backlight, it isn't connected to parallel port

maybe this weekend if i am not very tired i'll do a serial backpack

lucas_siglo21 · Post by **lucas_siglo21** » December 27th, 2008, 11:24 pm

i've made one for my brother:

[URL=http://g.imageshack.us/img508/dsc02051bw5.jpg/1/][IMG]

4x20 without backlight
potentiometer is for contrast

GizmoTheGreen · Post by **GizmoTheGreen** » December 30th, 2008, 4:23 am

hey, those are looking nice