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Sambuchi
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by Sambuchi » Wed Aug 08, 2007 12:44 pm
Thought I would share one of my projects that I finished today...
www.sambuchi.net/Projects/Displays/
This one took only a few days and was quite fun. The project mainly dealt with interfacing to a Hitatchi 44780 based LCD.
This was a simple display I took off a coffee maker at work that ate it last week.
No coffee for 2 days!
I plan on using this project in others... If you see any of these displays around in a junk pile.. pick them up! I want it!
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jollyrgr
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by jollyrgr » Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:38 pm
Link does not open, image is not displayed.
No trees were harmed in the creation of this message. But billions of electrons, photons, and electromagnetic waves were terribly inconvenienced!
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by dacflyer » Wed Aug 08, 2007 8:31 pm
ditto,, link does not work,.,
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by Robert Reed » Wed Aug 08, 2007 8:52 pm
Link opened first time (hours ago) but won't open now.
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Sambuchi
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by Sambuchi » Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:15 am
sorry about that...
my router just died.
never buy a linksys router.. belkin is much better. my opinion.
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by dacflyer » Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:31 pm
Hmmm for some dumb reason my server at work has your site blocked
i have to wait till i get home to look at it.
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by haklesup » Thu Aug 09, 2007 1:17 pm
That must have been some coffee maker, 2 line vac flourescent display. It sure beats the clock on a MrCoffee.
I met an artist once at a party in Half Moon Bay. He put a few of these around the room scrolling messages he thought were important. IMO, The important part was it got him lots of conversations with the ladies. Who knew?
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Sambuchi
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by Sambuchi » Thu Aug 09, 2007 6:25 pm
It was the ferrari of coffee makers.
They had this thing parked in the executive break room right next to the massage specialist. "Engineers/techs were not allowed to go in here..
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I picked off a lot of sensors off this thing too...
You should see the new model that they bought... I think it has a built-in rfid tag reader to tell you where the closest coffee bean bag is. If I get past the guard to the break room, I'll take a picture of it to show you.
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by Dean Huster » Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:11 pm
Actually, Tony, I'm more impressed with your display support box. What model Tek DSO is that?
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Dean Huster, Electronics Curmudgeon
Contributing Editor emeritus, "Q & A", of the former "Poptronics" magazine (formerly "Popular Electronics" and "Electronics Now" magazines).
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by hp » Fri Aug 10, 2007 12:00 am
Wow, and a Noritake VFD at that. Those are generally expensive HD44780 compatiable VFDs that are quite simple to control.
Great job getting that to work. I would have never though to look in modern consumer grade equipment for that kind of high end stuff. They generally all use custom ASICs and cheapo vfd / lcd displays.
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