Sunday, July 22, 2007

How Sweet it is

I am sure this picture is unimpressive to most of you. Just an LCD module with some question marks on it. Well, it is very sweet to me. I was interested in an LCD display to interface with an AVR micro-controller to potentially use in a number of projects including Grant's camera timer.

Retail for a LCD like this is over $20 US plus shipping, but through handy Ebay, I can get them for $3 US plus $3 shipping. $3 to ship from China!

So I got it within 2 weeks and today I tried to test it. Can I just say it took a lot of research and I was stumped about 5 times. Then, as with many of my projects, presto, it all came together and I have ??????????????????? on the screen, and on purpose!

Of course it all seems somewhat elementary now...

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1 comment:

Kirsten said...

Congrats honey! I'm glad you got it working before you lost your marbles or went postal! hehehe

good for you!