May 13, 201313 yr I have been thinking of building a nav/comm panel with a HD44780 LCD display driven by my Pokeys 56U.Problem is I have no idea how to send a character string to the device. I may be naive but I am sure that there are Lua scripts around to do this. My Googling has not yielded anything obvious.I favour Lua because I can easily run scripts from FSUIPC.Would anybody here know the answer?Thanks,Phil
June 16, 201312 yr hi there i've done that but with an arduino uno and i do have a pokeys55usb but i use it to light up leds and press buttons. the displays of the mcp i run through an arduino mega and nav/com through a arduino uno
August 11, 201312 yr Has nobody done this before? Really? I have, except I used a PicAxe microprocessor to handle the data for the displays. Here's a picture of my finished unit.... Richard
August 11, 201312 yr Commercial Member I have an Arduino Uno that I use to control a panel of switches, serviced by a Lua script in FSUIPC (Was a pain in the butt in my opinion, will order some Bodnar boards next time, but I digress). However, when I started playing around with Lua scripts and the board, I did see what I could send to the small LED character display that came with the Uno kit I have. Worked, but didn't seem like something I wanted to mess with. Arduino sketches + Lua scripts seems incredibly messy for my liking. I do recall a google code project though where someone had posted both his Lua scripts and the sketches to his setup that included displays. In fact, here: https://code.google.com/p/arduino-fs/ Jim Stewart Milviz Person.
August 12, 201312 yr Author Thank you all for your responses. It does look a bit complicated. I thought it might be easier than driving 7-segment displays but I'm not sure any more. Phil
August 17, 201312 yr A little bit of scratching my head and thinking hard came up with this site.... http://www.mikkila.org/fsbus/lcd/index_e.php This is a simple way to do exactly what you're looking for. The only downside is you need a parallel port, which most newer computers don't have. Richard
August 19, 201312 yr Author A little bit of scratching my head and thinking hard came up with this site.... http://www.mikkila.org/fsbus/lcd/index_e.php This is a simple way to do exactly what you're looking for. The only downside is you need a parallel port, which most newer computers don't have. Richard Thanks for going through the trouble... Looks as though your Google is better than mine! This is well worth investigating. Phil
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