[Lcdproc] Re: JW-002 (8x24 LCD) driver in the works

[Ethan Dicks]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks@gmail.com> wrote:
>  It does bring me to another point... LCDproc support of
>  less-that-fully-commercially-supported-displays.
>  By this I mean devices that do _not_ directly and easily interface to a
>  computer as sold, and that have "how to interface this" pages that may
>  or may not be around a few years from now.  The PJRC pages for the JW-002
>  go back to, IIRC, 2001, and are still around.  One set of pages that the LCDproc
>  page points to that is *not* around, however, is the stuff at
>  http://www.lcdproc.org/docs.php3
>  (as pointed to by the Hardware page - http://www.lcdproc.org/hardware.php3).

That first link should be...

  http://www.usblcd.de/lcdproc

(which formerly pointed to hardware docs on how to build STV5730 and
SED1520 interfaces - still supported by LCDproc, but now much harder
to find the construction plans for).

-ethan

>  Fortunately, I was able to locate (on archive.org) 99% of what I need to get
>  my SED1520 display attached to a PC parallel port, but I don't know if most
>  folks are that tenacious about trying to get a $5 surplus display working.
>  The experience does make me wonder if we should be preserving this sort
>  of information directly.  I'm sure most folks who are willing to put up pages
>  describing what they went through to get a particular display to work wouldn't
>  mind having another site host an "off-site copy" of their efforts (with full
>  and proper attribution, of course).  For some projects, it might only be PNGs
>  of the interface schematics; for others, schematics and microcontroller
>  firmware.  It then comes down to how to organize it on the LCDproc
>  webpages, but if we don't do it for displays that have "some assembly
>  required", we risk providing software support for displays that might no longer
>  be possible to easily attach, especially for less experienced users.
>
>  So how does the idea of a "you-build-it" schematic-and-firmware page as
>  part of the LCDproc pages sound?
>
>  JW-002 Related links:
>  http://www.pjrc.com/tech/mp3/pushbutton_info.html
>  http://www.pjrc.com/mp3/lcd_protocol.html
>
>  -ethan
>