<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div aria-label="Compose body">Thanks for the tip on the LCD displays. That's dirt-cheap and a perfect fit for a Garmin 530 I'm putting together.</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"geneb" <geneb@deltasoft.com><br><b>To: </b>simpits-tech@simpits.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, April 15, 2014 1:47:46 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[simpits-tech] Misc. info...<br><div><br></div>If you're an Arduino user and want to get into using Ethernet with it, I <br>discovered that Radio Shack is stocking the Seeedstudio Ethernet shield <br>for $20. This is the device: <br>http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/Ethernet-Shield-p-518.html<br><div><br></div>It's listed as discontinued, but RS is selling them in a blister pack, so <br>I suspect they made an exclusive deal with Seeed for them. Regardless, <br>$20 is a hell of a good deal for an Ethernet shield.<br><div><br></div>If you want to know WHY you'd like to have an Ethernet shield for your <br>Arduino, check out this site: http://svglobe.com/<br><div><br></div>------<br>I discovered a vendor of LCD displays - buydisplay.com through a Hackaday <br>article. They sell VERY inexpensive LCD displays up to 7". Here's an <br>example that is just begging to be made into a mini-EICAS or flight <br>director using a Rasbperry Pi as the brains:<br>http://www.buydisplay.com/default/7-hdmi-lcd-module-display-touchscreen-vga-video-driver-board<br><div><br></div>It includes an HDMI interface which would make it a perfect match for the <br>RPi.<br>------<br><div><br></div>Last week I designed & sent out for fabrication a 32 channel input board. <br>This is an easy way to interface a whole pile of inputs, organized row & <br>column style. It includes isolation diodes for each input so each <br>individual switch in the matrix can be decoded. It's essentially an 8 row <br>by 4 column implemenation of this schematic: <br>http://www.geneb.org/ematrix.png<br><div><br></div>The board will allow you to daisy chain the row lines, so you could build <br>a matrix of 8 rows by <insane #> columns if you so felt the need. :) If <br>the board actually does what I intended it to do, I'll post the Eagle PCB <br>files as well as a zip file with the gerbers in it so those that want can <br>have their own boards made. This board should work with *any* row/column <br>system including the EPIC board.<br><div><br></div>g.<br><div><br></div><br>-- <br>Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007<br>http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.<br>http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.<br>Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies.<br><div><br></div>ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment<br>A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.<br>http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!<br>_______________________________________________<br>Simpits-tech mailing list<br>Simpits-tech@simpits.org<br>http://www.simpits.org/mailman/listinfo/simpits-tech<br>To unsubscribe, please see the instructions at the bottom of the above page. Thanks!<br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>