Ok, so that subject probably doesn't make much sense. Here is what I'm
considering though. I've recently begun playing with LCD Smartie
(http://lcdsmartie.sourceforge.net/) which is a really cool little
program that lets you dump all sorts of data from your computer out to
an LCD. Stuff like monitoring your CPU load, the weather, news, email,
etc. I've also been playing with PalmOrb
(http://palmorb.sourceforge.net/) which is another program that lets
your Palm PDA emulate a Matrix Orbital display. This works well, but
I'm having trouble figuring out a place to leave the Palm permenantly
on my desk. It's pretty large for just a simple display.

I have a bunch of HD44780 compatible LCD displays. LCD Smartie will
support them natively if I wire them up to the parallel port of the
computer. I don't really want to do it that way though. I don't want
to have to run so many wires, plus it takes the one parallel port on
that computer. LCD Smartie also supports Matrix Orbital and
Crystalfontz serial displays. What I'd love is to be able to use a PIC
to emulate one of the above displays and pass the data on to the
parallel display. I remember once seeing a couple of serial to LCD
articles (though of course I can't find them now) but I'm unsure if
they are emulating one of the above two methods.

Any suggestions/pointers? My googling has only turned up a bunch of PC
case mod sites whose electronics knowledge seems to be limited to
wiring up LEDs to the 5V rail so their computer goes faster. You know,
like racing stripes make a car go faster.

Josh
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