What're you doing tonight?

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

I'm sitting in my apartment as it's slowly being filled up with fumes from the two buses idling just outside

 

[Martin]

Relaxing. Drinking and watching random stuff on TV. Some friends may or may not drop by later.

 

[Feldenak]

Playing LotRO and waiting for my wife to fall asleep so I can watch TV in peace.

 

[MovingTarget]

Neffing on #atot....

 

[CRXican]

party/pool party

probably wont stay long

 

[Rockinacoustic]

Friend bought some Cigars for tonight.

 

[sanzen07]

Being lame and not doing anything. Might play some video games or watch movies etc.

 

[Feldenak]

Yay, wife's asleep. Now to get her to move from the couch to the bed so I can fire up the PS3 in peace.

 

[PottedMeat]

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: Leros
I'm going to be doing some LCD interfacing tonight too. :thumbsup: This LCD.

As far as your project goes. Be aware that that LCD already has a controller on the back. Probably the HD44780. That controller exists on most of those character displays. So you want the datsheet for that chip. HD44780 data sheet

Interesting, I've got a fair bit to read, apparently. I wouldn't have even known enough to have been looking for a "controller" sheet.
The two datasheets available at Digikey are only one page each, and aren't particularly useful - kind of like a GPS module I had to work with. Its entire datasheet was also two pages long. Page 1 was more like a product brochure, and page 2 had the pinouts. That was pretty much it.
Its replacement has a manual/datasheet that is 47 pages long, plus a firmware and commands guide that is 103 pages long. THAT is a datasheet.
(Or the PIC chip I've had to work with, it's got >300 pages.)

I'm getting a crash course on electronics and computer engineering while at this job. My college time was for mechanical engineering.
Not that I'm complaining.

Let me know if you need any help. I was just doing a very similar project a few weeks ago (controlling a screen pixel by pixel). Granted the screen was graphical and not a character display. I'm not sure what the limits are of the controller on that character display. I'm sure you can make custom characters, but I'm not sure if you can get pixel access.

And once you've gotten this far. There is really no course which teaches you this. Even in my computer engineering courses, they don't teach this. You just gotta figure things out on your own.

When I first used those LCDs these tutorials were very helpful -

How to Use Intelligent LCDs Part I
How to Use Intelligent LCDs Part II

 

[RESmonkey]

Came back home early from a party. So basically, nothing.

 

[IronWing]

I watched a few thousand bats take flight at sunset.

 

[MrMatt]

Originally posted by: Gothgar

Originally posted by: zerocool84
Only a 12 pack between 2 people??? That's like Taco Bell mild weak sauce.

maybe it was a 12 pack of real beer?

I KNEW I had posted a thread on Saturday after drinking a bit. I ended up HAMMERED. 3 more beers and probably 4 jack & cokes at least. Had a blast though. And the first 6 were an IPA I believe.

Originally posted by: ironwing
I watched a few thousand bats take flight at sunset.

really? Do you live near a cave of some sort? That's probably the most interesting reply in this thread. Pics?

 

[invidia]

I'm going out with my Frat boys dressed up in brightly colored polo shirts to hang out with the hottest girls from Phi Kappa Alpha and Kappa Kappa Kappa.