Cake = lie

I have begun to play with an LCD screen. Here you go.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v39/LordFace/lcd2.png

Awesomeness. Will you be frequently posting messages via LCD Screen, then? :D

yes. I have dethroned woss in this matter.

Cut the red wire.

I do not know which is worse, that you have a heretical statement (Cake = Lie):eek:
or that you admit your one and only companion is a Rubik's Cube.:eek:

Cut the Green wire.:afrog:

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Originally Posted by Torc

companion is a Rubik's Cube.

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The Cube is the companion. :mad:

No! The green one!

i was just going to post a question about this. How are you controlling the lcd and how much was it? I just turned an old phillips cd-i into a media center computer but i don't have an lcd on it. There has to be a cheap answer, for chrissakes. A sideshow device is only $49 but for some reason every lcd i've seen for sale is higher. Heck i've even got the original lcd it had in it, but i wouldn't know where to begin programming this thing.

I am using an Atmel AVR microcontroller to control it. Specifically, I am using an Atmega168P.
The microcontroller is $4.08:
http://mouser.com/Search/ProductDeta...Y8Qd8AOQ%3d%3d

The LCD is $9.98:
http://www.mouser.com/Search/Product...216K1Z-FSB-GBW

To program the microcontroller, you can use an ISP (In-system pogrammer) $34:
http://www.mouser.com/Search/Product...y556-ATAVRISP2

You'd also need stuff like resistors, soldering stuff, wires, etc.