[dorkbotpdx-blabber] LCD reverse engineering, and blog issues...

[Thomas Lockney]

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 09:34 -0700, Paul Stoffregen wrote:
> I started a little reverse engineering effort on that big LCD from the 
> Micros 2700 Ben brought last night.
> 
> My hope is to get a AVR chip (arduino) driving this monster, and if Ben 
> still has lots of these things, everyone can play with a giant (and 
> free) LCD.  The LCD, by the way, is 640x200 pixels with a CCFL backlight.
> 
> I tried to post a blog entry on dorkbotpdx.org, but it gave me an error 
> (which I should have copied, but didn't) and now all I get is "Service 
> unavailable".  Grrrrr!
> 
> Anyway, here's a web page with all the info and pictures and 
> datasheets.  This was supposed to be a blog entry on dorkbotpdx.org but 
> it seems that just isn't meant to be.
> 
> http://www.pjrc.com/tech/eg64e00bcwu/blog1.html

Awesome work Paul! Hoping you get this figured out -- I've got one of
these beasts tucked in the back of my closet from the first time Ben
tried to get rid of them.

~thomas