cpu monitor panel

RE: cpu monitor panel

Gough Lui — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 00:45:04 GMT

In the old days, I used to use an HD44780-compatible display and a homebrew cable to the parallel port to drive a character LCD with the LCD Smartie software (freeware) running in the background collecting various information from plugins to display on the LCD. Pretty cool for the day, and eventually, I even used an Arduino to drive the HD44780 so that I could use LCD Smartie with a USB-connected screen as parallel ports started to be phased out.

- Gough

RE: cpu monitor panel

beacon_dave — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 22:55:26 GMT

This sounds a bit like the Crystal Control software:

https://www.crystalfontz.com/software/crystalcontrol2/manual/intro.html

which is available for the Crystal Fontz range of drive bay screens.

https://www.crystalfontz.com/

May be of interest.

On a side note, can anyone remember the display technology which came out a few years back which was a small low powered LCD display embedded into the outside of a laptop lid which could display various cached information whilst the laptop was powered down ?

RE: cpu monitor panel

ralphjy — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 19:44:34 GMT

Is there a reason that you don’t want to use a USB port for communication? It would make the unit portable and wouldn’t require special connections.

RE: cpu monitor panel

DAB — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 18:49:29 GMT

Nice post,

Glad to see you back on the site.

DAB

RE: cpu monitor panel

14rhb — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 17:47:22 GMT

Sounds like a really good and useful project, good luck. I look forward to seeing any progress.

Rod