picoLCD

Our Price: $39.95

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Description

Mini-Box USB LCD is an intelligent 2x20 character USB LCD display module with InfraRed receiver and keypad interface. This USB LCD display device it's a true USB HID device (not serial or parallel port to USB emulated) supporting high speed data transfers and easy application developmen without any special drivers needed. picoLCD is not limited to a USB only connection it can be connected thru I2C or USART.

Mini-Box has designed picoLCD with the ease of use in mind reducing the time and money needed for integrators to launch a new product with picoLCD. Our sample applications provides windows and linux platform support with open source code and SDK available.

Mini-Box USB LCD has built in 8x5 dots ASCII character font with 8 used definable characters and provides 8 GPO (General Purpose Output) pins. Internal EEPROM allows firmware upgrading and splash screen definition. On power on Mini-Box USB LCD is able to show up to 10 user defined splash screns with custom timing, order and led/gpo status.

Includes Vista SideShow driver support. Other Vista SideShow character and graphic hardware LCD display products will be available soon.

Dimensions

Uses

Rackmount 1U, 2U or larger cases
Servers systems to display vital data
Embedded systems
Small external USB devices used for monitoring or displaying realtime data

Documentation

Generic documentation

Hardware installation
Firmware update
Bootloader hardware programmer

Windows documentation

USB LCD software guide
Software developer guide
WinAmp PlugIn Readme Download

Linux documentation

Writing linux software using libusblcd SDK
Using usblcd linux client

Software

Windows Software

picoLCD software suite
Windows software suite including a TCP Server with GUI client LCD application, a command line application and an utility to update the firmware.

picoLCD Windows SDK
Windows source code for GUI client and the TCP server.

Linux Software
Linux version does not require any extra kernel module (just usb host drivers support) entire LCD can be controlled from userspace thru libusb.

picoLCD can be used on linux with the following software:

LCD4Linux: download here or a precompiled binary with configuration for picoLCD here
LCDProc with keypad support: Available in latest CVS from lcdproc homepage or here. An archive of the sources is available here. LCDProc with picoLCD patch is also available in latest Gentoo ebuilds repositories.
picoLCD OEM SDK: see below for download options

Application and SDK library in binary format (generic Linux)
usblcd-bin-0.1.4.tgz

Application and SDK library in binary format rpm distribution (Fedora Core)
usblcd-src-0.1.4.tgz

Application and SDK library in binary format for iMedia Linux distribution
usblcd.0.1.4.minibox.i386.imp

Source code for the application and SDK library
usblcd-src-0.1.4.tgz

Examples of using linux client from BASH scripts

Examples of custom characters icons

Earth Globe 8 chars [icon]
Letter 8 chars [icon ]