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Monday, 09 July 2007 |
LCD display and RSS Reader for FOXLX816 or FOXLX832
This project shows how to connect up the FOX board to a HD44870 based LCD. The LCD can be a two line or four line display. Displaying text can be from the web page at http://192.168.0.96/lcdf.php if the foXServe is installled. 
Parts List 
RSS Reader The source code for RSS Reader is slightly modified for the 2x16 LCD to decrease the scrolling speed.  rssreader.c
This file need to be compiled first. The quickist way to do this is to use the online compiler. The reader is set for the BBC RSS news feed. To change to another feed edit the rssreader.c file and replace the url with the new feed as shown below. | system("cd /var; wget http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml -O out.rss"); |
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