
We snagged an 8" IC wafer, and a bunch of grab bags. I'd recommend them to anyone who wants cheap stuff.
My best find, however, was a very nice Graphics LCD. It was included in their Displays Grab Bag - $5USD for 25 assorted displays. I figured that even if half of them didn't work, it would still pay for itself many times over. They gave me a whackload of 7-segs, and a 5x7 matrix (and threw in a couple light bars, just to be cheap), but then I saw the LCD... (pictures below)
It's a 65x128px B&W STN. Together with my (free) Cypress "WirelessUSB" (not "Wireless_USB", btw) module, I plan on making a wrist-mounted wireless terminal, because I am that much of a geek!
It has a spot for the Accursed Pink Foamy LCD Connector Of DOOM (APFLCOD), with ~20 conductors (my eyes go funny when I try to count them - especially at 11PM). Presuming it's a standard pitch, where would be my best bet to get a hold of one of those? Can you cut down a longer one? (e.g. from a calculator) Also, do you need anything special on the board to connect to it, or just pads? I haven't dealt with them before (because I've never had an LCD with clips that would actually allow me to mount it so the APFLCOD would stay in place).
I figured my best bet for controlling it would be a 32-bit AVR, since it has a GCC cross-compiler available. Could someone point me to some beginners/part selection info for them? Also, I need a cheap programmer for them. I have a laptop, so my COM port is not up to spec - as I asked in another post, could you hook the two parts of a MAX232 back to back in between the port and the device to boost it, so as to use a budget programmer? If possible, I'd like to kludge together something out of about $3 worth of stuff that I already have lying around

Thanks for any input...