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Re: Interfacing robot with LCD

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Originally Posted by Capt. Quirk View Post
A problem with serial LCD that I have had, is they require to many programming delays and may interfer with interrupts. On the other hand a Parallel LCD is very fast, but requires too many I/O pins.

If you are using it just temporarily, perhaps a self contained data acquisition - LCD would do the trick. A cheap Parallax SX chip (aprox $3.50 + $14.00 for a 4 line LCD (ebay) ) and use the SX/Basic example in the SX-IDE. That way you don't have to add any unnecessary code that may interfere with your actual program.
Using serial LCDs is actually really easy (I suspect you're thinking about the interface to the Hitatchi 44780 LCD controller, which was pretty ugly). Attached are a few files from a project that had a seetron.com LCD attached to the programming port.

-Kevin
Attached Files
File Type: c lcd.c (1.8 KB, 80 views)
File Type: h lcd.h (740 Bytes, 74 views)
File Type: c user_routines.c (1.8 KB, 61 views)
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