The LCD2USB: LCD Interface for your PC-Based Robots
If you possess a PC-based robot and are looking forward to hook up an alphanumeric LCD display panel to the toy machine; materializing the purpose Till Harbaum has come up with the LCD2USB, which basically is a combination of Open Hardware and Free Software, enabling users to control HD44780 type LCD displays from the USB port of Linux-based motherboard, whichever you own.
Employing the USB interface in software on an Atmel AVR (to reduce the hardware cost), the hot edition of the project will incorporate a fully GPL'd USB stack. For Linux, code from the LCD4Linux project, which is an innovative or revolutionary foundation to connect some other type of LCD panel to your Linux-based robot, will preordain the project. You can get a lot of Linux LCD interface projects that you also may employ in your project.
Via: robots.net
