Thread: poolingall hd44780 software

Don't think so, hd44780 has a parallel bus. If you want to send serial data to it, you'll need to use a microcontroller or some sort.

Great information, I just got into LCD's last month and only found a couple of sites for software, now if i could only get my LCD to work!

Can anyone point me to LCD software for OBD-II?

Pokey: if ONLY...im hunting this down myself.

I've been out of programming for a long time, but to me, i wouldnt think it would be that hard.

At the moment, i'm learning .NET, and once i feel at ease with it, I'm going to attemp it.

Stimp, if you do find something, do post it.

I don't think you'll be able to talk to hardware directly (you have to do this for the HD44780: poke bits at 0x378 and it's respective data address) with .NET without using some wrapper library to let you perform low level calls.. might be better off looking up how to do this in C or pulling off a hack in VB6 to do this.

no luck yet, only one with linux. no one has made one for windows.

I'm in the process of moving to Texas, new job. I was just getting into .net last month, but now I have to pack everything up (I HATE MOVING). Should be back into it about a month.

I've been playing with the OBD-II controllers, it seems simple to pull the data off. Its not like it sending data for each port continously. You just do a call and send it to display. You would of thought someone would have came up with something easy for it by now.

Oh well... boxes await

hi
i ordered one from ebay a cheap 24x2 lcd w hd44780 controller
i've seen some source code for the controller so i am going to try to program something for it when i get mine :-P it doesn't look too hard so hopefully i can get it working my plan is to make a plugin for gaim in perl so whenever i get an IM it'll show on the screen :-D


aha i hope this works

a plugin for what? so you get what? when you get a what?
:P