Here is a short guide on building a rack-mount, 3 LCD Panel to monitor up to 3 computers. When you turn off the computer monitor, you can use this to check its CPU load, hard disk space, temperature, etc.
Great if you are doing a CPU intensive job on the computer that takes hours to complete.
Here is a short guide on building a rack-mount, 3 LCD Panel to monitor up to 3 computers. When you turn off the computer monitor, you can use this to check its CPU load, hard disk space, temperature, etc.
Great if you are doing a CPU intensive job on the computer that takes hours to complete.
the hd44780 won't do serial. Gayan recommends a "middle man" approach. you send serial data to a microcontroller, and it uses a parallel port to send data to the display.
here is a prefab option for you (they also provide schematic and code, so its easy to reproduce)