This backpack device allows an LCD display to connect directly to a computer using a PIC microcontroller to drive the LCD, and a FTDI USB to serial chip to connect to a computer. This backpack device ...

It was an interface that launched a thousand hacks. Near trivial to program, enough I/O lines for useful work, and sufficiently fast for a multitude of applications: homebrew logic analyzers, chip ...

An 8-bit microcontroller can now operate a 800×600 colour LCD graphics screen, and video is possible, thanks to a higher resolution faster version of the Eve graphics processor from Glasgow chip firm ...

The projects illustrates a standard HD44780 compatible LCD being interfaced and the Crystal Fontz serial protocol being emulated over a virtual COM port created by the FTDI chip in order to use the ...