The thought from the beginning was to somehow connect a parallel LCD display to the computers USB-port. A PIC-micro could take care of the serial-to-paralell conversion, but how connect a cheap PIC to the USB-port? A converter chip would be great, but then I came to think of data cables for mobiles. They are just that, USB to serial converters, they are cheap and I don't have to solder the little USB-ic myself. Like this: USB-port -- data cable -- PIC-processor -- LCD Can this work? Is a PIC16F84 enough?
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19 years ago