July 5th, 2008 Drive A VGA Monitor Without A PC
Sure these days you can find a device that can easily drive a VGA Monitor, but the title refers to a home made device that could drive a VGA Monitor. An LPC2138 microcontroller generates the VGA signals that drive the monitor as well as the graphics and fonts. The microcontroller also handles a keyboard, a mouse and some storage memory.
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September 8th, 2008 at 12:33 am
I don’t think that using single (and slow) MCU to generate graphics and do anything else is a wise idea. What I would recommend is using some stand-alone VGA Microcontroller interface such as MicroVGA http://www.microvga.com/ and some low-end MCU attached to it…