Hello everyone,
I'm afraid I don't know a good deal about circuitry and electronics, so I apologize if this sounds stupid, but I couldn't seem to find any info about it online and figured if anyone you guys would probably know. So, that said, I was recently seized by an urge to dissect an old digital camera that was lying around, I guess partly because I figured it would be really cool if I could do something creative with the ccd and lcd. Well, heh, I suppose that's a lot easier to dream up than it is to actually do.
I was most curious about the lcd; how could you hook something up to the ribbon cable (it has 18 contacts, if it's of any interest) so as to display something on it? Would/Could you use some sort of micrcontroller, or somehow plug it into your computer? Every site I came across about lcd screens (and microcontrollers) used the type that displays chars, and on top of that they were already completely assembled (this one's literally just the glass with a cable sticking out).
Thanks for any insight
I'm afraid I don't know a good deal about circuitry and electronics, so I apologize if this sounds stupid, but I couldn't seem to find any info about it online and figured if anyone you guys would probably know. So, that said, I was recently seized by an urge to dissect an old digital camera that was lying around, I guess partly because I figured it would be really cool if I could do something creative with the ccd and lcd. Well, heh, I suppose that's a lot easier to dream up than it is to actually do.
I was most curious about the lcd; how could you hook something up to the ribbon cable (it has 18 contacts, if it's of any interest) so as to display something on it? Would/Could you use some sort of micrcontroller, or somehow plug it into your computer? Every site I came across about lcd screens (and microcontrollers) used the type that displays chars, and on top of that they were already completely assembled (this one's literally just the glass with a cable sticking out).
Thanks for any insight