Often times, applications require visual feedback such as of short messages, system stats, found in headless systems as well as secondary displays for regular PCs. Featuring Windows XP and Linux support as well as Vista Sideshow support, the picoLCD Intelligent 2x20 USB LCD display is intended for innovative OEM applications for a broad range of applications.

This tiny and inexpensive LCD ($39/unit or $29 in larger qty) has native USB interface (no clunky serial->USB conversion), requires no drivers – any operating system will recognize this unit as a generic HID device. For Vista Sideshow operation a user space SideShow driver installtion is required (read below for more details). For Vista Sideshow, all data is rendered in the SideShow driver that communicates via a generic full speed USB HID extension.

The picoLCD Intelligent 2x20 SideShow compatible USB LCD features:

- 20x2 character USB LCD Display
- True full-speed USB HID device
- USB full-speed 2.0 support
- 10 custom splash screens, custom timing / looping
- IR receiver connector
- Keypad / LED connector
- USART and I2C connectors
- Supports 8 GPO
- Software support for Windows XP, Vista Sideshow and Linux
- Open source SDK and source code
- Built in ASCII character set with support for user defined characters
- Electroluminescent green backlight
- On the fly firmware updates

Sideshow drivers will be posted at the end of the month at this URL: http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.490/.f. I will post the exact download URL once the picoPCD SideSHow drivers become available.

Here are some nice picoLCD snapshots running stock Windows Vista Sideshow gadgets.

This is a snapshot of the picLCD running the Sideshow Stocks gadget. On this display, scrolling can be set from right to left or from botton to top. Also, in the SideShow preferences area for this device the scrolling speed can be set from 0.1S to 2seconds.

picoLCD 2x20 running the Windows Media Sideshow gadget. Also fond in the preferences menu, there is optonm to supress the gadget title, thus eliminating one line, a feature that can be quite valuable in for 2x20 LCD displays.

The Windows Mail SideShow gadget, with scrolling from right to left, gadget title shows on first line.

picoLCD Sideshow drivers will be posted around may-20-2007 at this URL: http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.490/.f. For OEM / sales inquries, please contact sales@mini-box.com.

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