Hi Vanja,

I didn't know the LCD manufacturer myself, I stay in Canada but am working
on a project for my customer (a manufacturer) from Hong Kong. They are
responsible for sourcing the custom LCD themselves, but as far as I know,
there are many vendors (some are quite small) in Asia that will fabricate
custom LCD (LCD with your required icons) for you at low cost. You need to
pay them a one-off design fee (a few hundred US dollars or less, I guess),
then later the cost of the LCD when you order in volume. I may ask my
customer for more if you really need the details.

John


>Hi John,
>
>I'm also looking around for a custom LCD display, so I'd appreciate if you
>could let me know which company you used for your design.
>
>You can use a simple shift register to drive your LCD.  An example of this
>kind of use can be found on page 21 of the book "Pic'n up the pace".  The
>shift register used there is 74HC595; the nice thing about this kind of
>register is that you can connect a bunch of them in a series, so you can
>control a number of segments using only four I/O lines from your PIC.
>
>Looking forward to hearing about your experience with custom LCD's.
>
>Thanks,  Vanja.
>


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