Thanks for the pep talk Mike :) Turns out I've found some and I am modifying it. This is my first LCD project with a PIC and the last thing I need are too many parameters. I hope to learn from this code, then start building LCDs into my future projects by the dozens! Josh -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -Douglas Adams On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:21:36 -0600, Mike Hord wrote: > Just do it. Writing a blurb of code which takes serial data and puts it out > to an LCD is NOT rocket science. YOU can do it. And probably in less > time than it'll take to find and borrow someone else's work. > > The real problem is getting your PIC to speak the same language as the > CrystalFontz one. I don't know if the communication is bi-directional or > not; the easiest way to figure out what's going on is to watch the data > coming out of LCDSmartie with another computer running Hyperterminal > (or some other, more advanced terminal program that'll understand the > non-ASCII-character content). > > I guess I haven't really provided anything you didn't know, but seriously, > I KNOW YOU CAN DO THIS. Three years ago I made a PIC program > that took data from a serial port and displayed it on a serial port. I'm > not a guru or anything now, but I'm a far sight farther along than I was > then, and I still pulled it off. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist