RSS displays – first steps

The set-up

Arduino Board (Diecimila).

Arduino Eternet Shield.

16*2 serial LCD . The data sheet is here.

The wiring is largely based on this forum post, but the pin mappings are done according to the data sheet of my lcd display, which addmittedly is not wildly different.

I also edited the c++ file in the lcd4bit library (as shown in the forum post) to set the pins on the arduino – this isn’t difficult, I’ve never done c++ before.

I think this is going to be a weather rss feed display, or possibly something to do with Flickr. Dunno yet, at the moment I’m just messing around with getting xml onto the screen (I’m quite new to  this XML/API stuff). Code still to come, when I manage to get it working.

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Published:
02.22.09 / 10pm
Category:
fun stuff, mini projects, Rss Displays