Comments on: Drawing images on a character display

By: Andre

Andre — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:10:39 +0000

Only problem is, those chips can only hold 8 custom chars, so you wont be able to have completely custom picture on alphabetic lcd

By: Stu

Stu — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:35:29 +0000

I'm thinking that monkey might actually be Gunther, from Futurama, I havent googled it to be sure. Being a Groening thing too the artwork is very similar, but he appears to be missing his hat...
Ummm nice project, but to state the blindingly obvious - the gaps between the characters ruin the effect quite a bit I think.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:09:09 +0000

@thegimpster: I've done it in LCDSmartie before, this was several years ago but I'm sure they still have the feature... Didn't look as nice as his, but see mine that I did in LCDSmartie: http://zenith.notepadhax.com/uploader/uploads/pbj.jpg

By: Orv

Orv — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:51:47 +0000

@3: With so few pixels, hand-rasterized art is likely to look better than something that’s been computer-resized. At very least it’s going to have to be hand-edited to look clear.

By: morden

morden — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:04:37 +0000

What exactly would be so hard about writing some conversion software here and forgoing the manual plotting and web based upload?

I'm confused as to why it's such a dirty hack. Would perhaps be more enlightened if the site hadn't crashed and left me in the dark about the write-up.

By: thegimpster

thegimpster — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:52:31 +0000

Would be awesome if you could do it w/ lcd smartie. I have an lcd set up to my computer at work so I can display song info w/o having my monitor on. I also have a remote control for winamp too so I can pause my music when the boss walks by.

By: dax

dax — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:22:42 +0000

good use of existing technology being used for its predetermined use.
I don’t quite agree with rasterizing to paper — personally, I’m much better off with zooming in MS Paint, using the pencil and showing a grid if necessary..