No TV required

I always thought it was unsociable to have the TV on whist listening to music so here’s the latest hack.
It’s very early at the moment and only prints a little info out and no control is yet possible. That will change when I get to it.

WMA11b LCD Hack

Thanks to Al for the idea..

The LCD is from PJRC.

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5 Responses to “No TV required”

  1. Jayjay Says:
    January 23rd, 2006 at 2:34 pm

    Hello

    What happed to the Inside the WMA11B page? apparently the old links dont work, I would like to rip open my device, but would like to know what to expect and btw, what type of interface is used for the LCD? serial? GPIO?

    Thanks
    Jay

  2. Jim Says:
    January 23rd, 2006 at 4:04 pm

    The inside page got misplaced this weekend during the conversion to WordPress. I’ll reinstate it later on today.

    The LCD was attached to the missing serial port. I just added a serial driver to the blank socket. Andy Wild discovered the pins on the motherboard for the GPIO but I can’t remember where they are now.

  3. Jim Says:
    January 23rd, 2006 at 8:59 pm

    Jayjay, Inside the WMA11b post is here http://turtlehead.co.uk/2004/06/28/inside-the-linksys-wma11b.

  4. Jayjay Says:
    January 24th, 2006 at 12:24 pm

    Jim,

    Thanks a ton! as for the LCD, the one you are using is actually a serial protocol based LCD then? How are the song info sent to the LCD? as part of the serial dump message from the linux kernel inside? Does the original firmware print anything at all on this port?

    Cheers
    Jay

  5. marc Says:
    September 2nd, 2006 at 9:32 am

    “the one you are using is actually a serial protocol based LCD then?” Jayjay said…. same question, but with another hack in mind :
    I’ve a bunch of old Nokia GSM screens (all serial based, with the power supply regulation and the buffering stage embedded). It’s less readable than the screen you used, but it coud be enough just to give basic infos :-)

    Thnks for the nice job you do on your web site.
    Marc

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