Recent Posts

  • Programming the LCD I/O Backpack with an Arduino December 20, 2010

    Programming the LCD I/O Backpack with an Arduino

    Since the workshop in the beginning of October, there has been a few requests for alternatives to the FTDI USB to TTL level UART adapters. They are a bit expensive, and many of the attendees at the workshop didn’t have one.

  • Introducing the LCD I/O Backpack November 20, 2010

    Introducing the LCD I/O Backpack

    I admit, it has been a little slow for the past couple of months here on the blog, but that doesn’t mean nothing has happened.

  • Custom LCD Characters with Arduino August 01, 2010

    Custom LCD Characters with Arduino

    A few days ago I saw a post on Adafruits blog about an online tool by Bruno Maia to help create custom characters for use with character based LCD like the ones used in the last article.

  • 4 LCD displays on 1 Arduino August 01, 2010

    4 LCD displays on 1 Arduino

    I’m planning an Arduino based project where I would like to use two of the 16x2 character based LCD displays, but at the same time, don’t want to use all the I/O pins, I need some for data input also.

  • July 19, 2010

    I got my MSP430 LaunchPad