[time-nuts] iCruze displays (was ko4bb monitor)

[Had]

Ignacio,

Uploading to KO4BBs site is a good idea. If you would send the 
information to me  had at to-way.com  I will put it on my site at  www.to-way.com.

Hadley
K7MLR


At 12:52 PM 3/12/2010, you wrote:
>This is about the recycled displays that fluke.l used to implement 
>his version of the KO4BB Thunderbolt monitor and he sells on eBay.
>
>I bought some of these iCruze surplus displays because I think that 
>are a good gadget for a variety of projects, since they include, 
>among the 20 x 2 line back lit display, a nice cabinet  and  a good 
>looking bezel.   My plan was to remove (or exchange) the  pcb with 
>the microprocessor and keep only the display itself and the cabinet, 
>more or less as Bob (fluke.l) did.
>Anyway I tried to know more about the original circuitry, because it 
>could be useful.  Imagine if this is something like a serial ASCII 
>terminal.  So I did some reverse engineering, found a signal leaving 
>the device and now I got the schematics.
>It seems to communicate with I2C, but I'm not sure, it needs some 
>experimentation by someone used to this protocol.
>Some members of this list already had bought several units and asked 
>me about the information, so I want to know a good place to upload 
>if it can be of interest to mere members, or I can send it directly 
>to the ones that has asked for it.
>
>Regards,
>Ignacio, EB4APL
>
>
>
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