----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Winter" <HDRW@H2Org.demon.co.uk>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 6:19 AM
Subject: Re: [EE] Help locating surplus LCD supplier from past post


> Jeff,
>
>> The serial LCD modules are hand assembled by me on prototype
>> board connected as a daughter board to the LCD's 1x14 header. It took a
>> little time to make the first 2 or 3 but I got better at it. I built 10 
>> as
>> an initial trial for sale at the Trenton Computer Fest in NJ 2 weeks ago 
>> and
>> priced them at $20.  I set up a demo using a Basic Stamp with display
>> scrolling effects.  I sold out of the 10 in about 4 hours.  These are 
>> based
>> on the PIC16F84a which has been superceded by newer PICs now but I bought 
>> 50
>> off of eBay a while ago for less than $1 each so that's what I'm using.
>> Here's a picture of the board: http://www.towacoimaging.com/ser_lcd1.jpg
>> I am not much of a programmer and never learned ASM or C, but the Serial 
>> LCD
>> code was only a few lines in PicBasic Pro
>
> OK, thanks for that.  A question about the picture:  How do you do the 
> connection to the LCD?  You seem to
> have some sort of socket or pin-strip, but with the plastic housing 
> obscuring the copper track - how did you
> solder it?  (This is a problem I often have with single-sided boards which 
> need off-board connectors facing
> the "wrong" way).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Howard Winter
> St.Albans, England

Howard,
  The way I connected the boards was to use a single inline socket (AKA 
female header) on the LCD facing the daughter board and a pin strip header 
on the daugheter board.  What I did was push the pins in flush with the 
plastic body of the header using pliers and inserted them from the component 
side of the daughter board. This is the strip that you see at the bottom of 
the board.The plastic body acts as a stop & a small amount of solder on the 
solder side holds it in place without interfering with the mating to the 
female header.  I break the headers into six & four pins as I use the 
displays in 4 bit mode so 4 data lines are not used so I can't see wasting 
the pin strip.
Best regards,
Jeff Galinat


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