Homebrew PCBs

On Sun, 28 May 2006 15:56:25 +0200, Mycroft2152 <mycroft2152@...>  
wrote:

> To each his own....
> The fact that Anderson used a PIC chip is irrelevant.
> You just send it a serial text command and it does the
> rest. Just like any ther serial LCD dispaly.
> Myc


Yes, but i'm afraid i will take longer to get the serial comms working  
than anything else ;-)
It would probably be easier for me to go with the next larger micro to get  
those additional pins for parallel mode.

The idea of serial displays is a good one. Data volume is low, IO pins are  
expensive and brains inside the micro is cheap, so it is obvious to go  
serial. Having a converter might well be the most cost effective way since  
the parallel displays are still so widely available.

ST