Hello Robert & PIC.ers, >Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:43:09 -0400 >From: Robert James Kaes >Subject: [EE:] Finished LCD Units > >Hi All, >Does any one know of a supplier of finished LCD units? What's I'm >after is basically a 16x2 monochrome, back-lit, LCD display with a >serial interface. The catch: I don't want just a board that I then >have to put in a box. Basically, I would like the display and control >unit all to be built into a bezel that I could then snap into a hole >in a panel and run the wire to the micro-controller. > >Is there anything like that available, or will I have to go the route >of building the LCD into the bezel for later installation? (These >display units will be installed in a local manufacturing company, so >I'll be installed at 30 units, and I don't want to build everything by >hand for each unit! :) > >Thank you for any insight you can provide. > -- Robert I do this all the time, my apps. aren't really cost-sensitive tho'. The serial interface is I2C, using the PCF8574 philips 8 IO port expander. Bezels? Well, I have custom made panels where the lcd module (44780 based) bolts onto the rear of the panel and the front is finished off with laminate and perspex. Don't know how to advise you about this end of it but if you need help on the comms. side, ask me. best regards, John email from the desk of John Sanderson. JS Controls, PO Box 1887, Boksburg 1460, Rep. of S. Africa. Tel/Fax 011 893 4154, Cell 082 741 6275, web http://www.jscontrols.co.za Manufacturer & purveyor of laboratory force testing apparatus & related products & services. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu