Hey guys, Im a noob sorry. I have always loved electronics but never got into the programming side of things. Im hoping someone can just point me in the right direction so i can investigate more...
I have an idea. I essentially want to make a large 1x16 character display made out of LED's that can be controlled via serial port on the fly.
Using a HD44780 (or similar) is the weird thing im suggesting here i guess. Because they interface with PC so easily and there are so many plugins and programs already made for it (like winamp plugins and so forth) i thought it would be a great controller for a LED dot matrix type display. Each pixel that would have displayed on a LCD could be represented by a LED (huge number of LED's i know, i think its gonna be 600 or so)
Now.. is this even possible? Is this a stoopid way to go about it? Am i really going to far to avoid learning about programming?
thanks for your time
Mike
I have an idea. I essentially want to make a large 1x16 character display made out of LED's that can be controlled via serial port on the fly.
Using a HD44780 (or similar) is the weird thing im suggesting here i guess. Because they interface with PC so easily and there are so many plugins and programs already made for it (like winamp plugins and so forth) i thought it would be a great controller for a LED dot matrix type display. Each pixel that would have displayed on a LCD could be represented by a LED (huge number of LED's i know, i think its gonna be 600 or so)
Now.. is this even possible? Is this a stoopid way to go about it? Am i really going to far to avoid learning about programming?
thanks for your time
Mike
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