The killer idea, death by invention
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1944AC: Inventor and chemist Thomas Midgley, Jr. accidentally strangled himself with the cord of a pulley-operated mechanical bed of his own design.
Turns out Thomas Midgley, Jr. also invented CFCs but didn’t live long enough to …

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Arduino and HD44780 LCD
Saturday, 20 Sep, 2008 – 23:06 | 4 Comments
Arduino and HD44780 LCD

I’ve just been playing with a new HD44780 4×20 LCD from ebay on the Arduino. As I’m still ‘playing’ I’ve tried to document a kind of breadboard interface for the Arduino to LCD. It should …

Arduino and HD44780 LCD v1.0 snippet
Saturday, 20 Sep, 2008 – 23:04 | One Comment

/* LCD display with 4 DataPins
* ——–
*
* This is a example in how to use an LCD screen
* configured with data transfers over 2 x 4 bits. The example
* based on the “LCD Hola example” …