Comments on: LCD Giveaway Update 2

By: dfowler

dfowler — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:13:30 +0000

Update (04/20/07): The original LCD modules are gone but we have new parts to give away! Read this post for more information.

By: dfowler

dfowler — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:26:39 +0000

Webcrawler how about writing up an article about a recent project or other posible ideas. Read this post for an alternate way to get the free LCD.
http://www.uchobby.com/index.php/2007/04/14/hobby-parts-for-articles/

By: Webcrawler42

Webcrawler42 — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:15:11 +0000

dfowler: I would still like to try, our teacher is an EECS major and we have some funds and about 2 months with virtually no projects lined up.

By: Anton Zalutsky

Anton Zalutsky — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 00:17:34 +0000

hey! I’ve been looking for an LCD to start doing various types of learning with them. I am planning on making my Dorm Room autonomous seeing that I am going to do a double major in Robotics and Applied Math.

College is expensive though, so this would be a great start to a really fun project. Don’t worry- I will share with my roommate(kind of!)

Think you can help me out???

By: dfowler

dfowler — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 19:41:21 +0000

PriyayiSae: I would be happy to send you a LCD if you can make a link back to my site from yours but I’m not sure the display would be of much use to you. Read below.

Webcrawler42: I would be happy to give your class a LCD for your class projects. The LCD I am giving away may not be good for your class however. Read below.

The display we are giving away is difficult to interface with. It would not be possible to make it do much with a PC parallel interface. You would need a very fast uC like an ARM 7 with more then 10K of RAM.

By: PriyayiSae

PriyayiSae — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 04:40:32 +0000

Hello. I was build an many interfacing LCD via paralel port + infrared support. But I just build with a 16×2 LCD screen because I don’t have enough money to buy the bigger LCD both character or graphical LCD. I hope you will give me an LCD. Thanks a lot.

here
you can find my example gallery LCD with LCDproc.

By: Webcrawler42

Webcrawler42 — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 19:09:20 +0000

I am in Advanced Electronics, a High School class of 3 and we do misc. projects like intefacing a robotic arm via a Printer Port and Visual Basic. I was wondering if you could give us an LCD to play with.

By: dfowler

dfowler — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 08:05:20 +0000

Greg,
Yes there are a few displays left but I do not think they are what your looking for. These display units requre a very fast interface as each pixel must be output at the full refresh rate.

Yon,
I accidently deleted your comment with a web site link meant for Greg. I hope you can repost it.

By: Greg Carroll

Greg Carroll — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:17:16 +0000

Hi, am I to late or just fasionally late to get one of the LCD’s you’re giving away? I’ve been wanting to build this printer cable LCD, link; http://www.overclockers.com.au/techstuff/a_diy_lcd/index.shtml I’ve got the programming software downloaded I’ve just been waiting to run across an LCD. Hope you can help me out and thank you.
G-MAN

By: C. Flowers

C. Flowers — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:58:45 +0000

Received the LCD today…looks great. Just need to figure out how to use it.
Love to hear from others on their projects.
C. Flowers