Josh,
A project I have wanted to undertake but didn't feel up to the challenge.

( I'm pretty much one of those guys that Wouter and Olin describe as 
someone who shouldn't be writing code.)

BUT, I'm not so bad at research

I can't vouch for it but this implies it can emulate:
http://www.hvwtech.com/pages/products_view.asp?ProductID=109

this looks promising:
http://hyper.sunjapan.com.cn/~hz/PIC/mo-lcd/index.html

The instruction sets are in some of the pdf's on the respective mfg's 
websites.

I'll be here ready to cheer you on :)
Dave





Josh Koffman wrote:
> 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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