"Jeremy" wrote: >Has anyone out there used a Character LCD as a display. > >Anyway I was looking at something like: >http://www.matrixorbital.com/products/lcd4041.htm >could be put in a project box and strapped to my arm for >travel. I've used some similiar displays from Scott Edwards Electronics [1] for projects at work and they work well. >I do a lot of hiking and am working on a hiking website... >just thought a wearable could help me take notes and >keep track of way points, etc etc. > >the LCD has a serial interface... anyone ever concert >VGA to serial? This'd be really tricky, you'd need a system running OCR software looking at the VGA video! Far easier to design your user interface device so that it can be hung off a standard serial port - the serial display can be directly connected, and it's pretty trivial to make a simple keyboard that can transmit serial data. Then you'd just need a suitably tweaked termcap entry and getty or similar running on the serial port. Asher. [1] http://www.seetron.com/ -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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