Put together, this is a Raspberry Pi running a Python script that uses 3 GPIO pins to control 16 outputs.
Driving the LCD itself is a dirty, dirty hack that fools some code from Adafruit into thinking it’s talking directly to GPIO pins, when really it’s talking to my shift registers.
It’s that last part which made me bounce in my chair – because I don’t quite yet understand how to talk to the LCD display, yet my hack worked the first time. (Albeit very, very slowly.) \o/
In the near future, I want to figure out how to control the red / blue / green backlight pins from the Raspberry Pi, in order to change colors on the display
Adafruit Pi T-Cobbler Breakout Kit for Raspberry Pi – Now that you’ve finally got your hands on a Raspberry Pi® , you’re probably itching to make some fun embedded computer projects with it. What you need is an add on prototyping Pi T-Cobbler from Adafruit, which can break out all those tasty power, GPIO, I2C and SPI pins from the 26 pin header onto a solderless breadboard. This mini kit will make “cobbling together” prototypes with the Pi super easy. Designed for Raspberry Pi Model B Revision 1 or Revision 2. (read more)
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Hey, I just finished a quick proof of concept project using about 10 different adafruit products, including the T-Cobbler and wanted to show it off. (not sure this is the best place to do so, but here it is)
Hey, I just finished a quick proof of concept project using about 10 different adafruit products, including the T-Cobbler and wanted to show it off. (not sure this is the best place to do so, but here it is)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6u-H1sza-w