Alphanumeric LED display for web data
This 8-character alphanumeric LED display project connects to an USB port of PC and can display any data from your computer or from web such as weather info, RSS feeds from your favorite websites, time, and anything else that you would like to. The display has 8 push button for user interface to quickly navigate through various functionalities. A PC application developed in C# is used to configure the display. The display uses the PIC18F4550 microcontroller and its firmware is developed using MPLAB IDE using C18 compiler.
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