That is true, although it is not so bad if you have a propper crimping tool. I imagine any of those instances where institutions give / throw away tons of old PCs would be an excelent opertunity to snag some connectors. They've been using those things at least since I got my first compy in 1992! Pro...

If I knew what those things are called, I could find a DigiKey part # for you....but I looked through their catalog last night and it seemed that all the connectors were fancier than what you need.

~Adam

You could also buy a brand new standard character LCD for $12 from digikey, but what Matrix Orbital has done is add a bunch of custom electronics to make things better. First of all, they work over serial or USB (depends on model), so you don't need a parallel port or vga port to drive it. Second, t...

Ah huh...I saw the 4066 mentioned elsewhere in the forum, but the datasheet link is much appreciated as I couldn't find it before. I knew there must be something out there, prepackaged, that does exactly what I need. BTW, in case curiosity springs up, I'm interfacing with a QT160 (just got a few yes...

So there are a number of posts and articles about running how powered components (CCFL lighting, fans, etc.) off of low powered GOPs, but what I need is something on the other end of things. I don't know much about elctronics (I've only taken an intro level EE course), but what I need to do is contr...

Hi, I have an LK202-25-WB-V which I got about two months ago (love it)...a very strange thing just happened now...for not apparent reason, the two lefthand LEDs for the backlight are not lit...everything else works fine, the right two leds are lit up bright as ever. The backlight has never been inte...