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If you can get that to work on the robot controller I will truly be amazed.
And then, of course, you will have to tell us all how you did it :D

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The students on our team always amaze me. They never seem to settle for what works in the present. Good job John, and keep up the good work.

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If I'm not wrong, some team did use that @ VCU??
I don't remember the team number on top of my head, but i saw the controller with the LCD panel, and as per prediction my jaw dropped. :eek:

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I'm kind of embarrassed to say that I'm still trying to figure this out:

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DUDE!! It's a Dell.. lol or is it??

Looks like it from the hinge bracket anyways.
Yeah, I've taken mine apart as well that much.

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Yea it is indeed a dell! It is the LCD screen from my inspiron 1150. I am not yet ready to get it going. I want to try some lower lever LCDs first. I fryed my mobo when the wires inside my power cord finally broke and shorted >_<. But heyy, why not, I am pretty sure I can find a vga driver chip that takes a serial data line.

BTW David55 IF you want to get that 16x2 LCD working PM or IM me my SNs are in my pro. It is prolly a HD44780 LCD controller chip.

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You're a lot further along than I am, so don't be embarassed.

But I am sure there are others here who can help - start a new thread (after searching, of course). Once you figure it out, write a white paper!

Don

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Currently, me and my team is working on a Voice Activated Processor. It contains two LCDs on it, and are still trying to figure out how to make it work. It actually comes with a default/test code that runs the LCDs and sort of explains how to make it work with the digital outputs/inputs or PWMs etc.
PM if me you want to get that default code. The LCD look pretty similar to the one shown posted by David55.

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Whats so hard about the LCD? It looks like the sparkfun LCD I was plaing with if it is Sparkfun has the code and schmatics for their LCD Backback. Once you have that just send the serial commands to the backback.

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The display probably accepts readable and control ASCII characters over TTL or I2C. Or, it may have some data lines (probably 8) and a write strobe.

Do you have a part/model number? I could probably help you out if you had one.

-Q

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I sure thought it was an 1150. Mine died 3 months ago due to a glass of water spilling on the mother board. :D We're going to try to combine the parts of 2 broken laptops to make one working one to add to our cart as a programmer/music player. Hopefully it works out.