>
>
> That's the ones!  I bought a couple of samples to play with, then realised
> that you had to keep them refreshed, and lost interest.  If you could have
> just sent them an image and they'd keep it displayed until changed, they
> would have been much more useful.  Shame!  They're still in their box
> somewhere in my deep-litter filing system...
>
> > I've done driver code for them in the AVR
>
> How many could you run at once - more than one?  If you need a processor
> per button it goes from VERY expensive to ridiculous!  :-)


I never tried going more than one, but you can chain them like serial shift
registers.
Knowing the code, I'd say that the tiny-26 could probably deal with at least
four, maybe more.
I could set it up and try it, but that's some fair work.
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