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Author:Josehf Murchison Josehf Lloyd Murchison
I am a photographer, a tinker, an electronics technology engineer, and author; I write short stories and poetry for the love of writing. I started writing poetry in
high school over thirty years ago where I met my wife Mary Anne. We are the proud parents of two sons Joshua and Michael. In college I studied electronics
technology and creative writing; soon after I left college I published my novelette “Tails of a Gay Incubus”, it can be found all over the world by googleing its
title or me. I have been published in numerous anthologies and many of my published works are in my book Melodious Verse. I sometimes like to say I was
born under an oriental curse, “May your life be interesting”. Josehf is Spanish and Aramaic spelling of Joseph, however that is not why my name is spelled
with a hf. My parents screwed up the spelling when I was born. When people ask me why I don’t change my name to Joseph, I tell them I don’t in order to
irritate my parents. After all, Why should I change my name to fix their mistake? An odd story goes with my name, my grandfather was Joseph Lloyd Foubert
and I was named after my grandfather. When he discovered the spelling mistake, my grandfather kidnapped me and had me baptized Joseph so God would
know who I was.
I salvage; components can get expensive, LCDs can run $10.00 and up even SCRs and mosfets can cost over $100.00 so I salvage everything of reusable value as well
as recyclable. Scrap metals like copper, gold, silver, and aluminum can bring you money as well.
Liquid Crystal Displays can be found on CD players, Phones, and printers just to mention a few. In this Instructable I will be dissembling an HP combination printer,
scanner, fax machine.
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Step 2: Disassembling a HP psc 750xi
Printers & scanners are simple to dissemble, just remove the screws and take out the parts most of the screws are under the lid, on the back, and on the bottom of the
printer & scanner.
Even when the screws are removed the plastic housing panels are clipped together with tabs holding them in place. Work your way around the individual panels to find
the tabs and unclip them. Plastic is recyclable and some plastic recyclers pay for the plastic so don’t just throw the plastic in the garbage.
The control module of the printer scanner contains the control buttons and the Liquid Crystal Display. It dissembles by removing the five screws on the back.
I sort the parts into two groups Electronics to be stripped for parts and gold, and mechanics like guides, gears, and stepper motors.
Remember metal is recyclable and almost all recyclers pay for scrap metal so if you don’t keep it sell it.
Although the LCD module looks different than the other TN STN FSTN LCD modules in this Instructable it is connected the same way when testing.
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Step 3: Chip on Glass Liquid Crystal Displays (COG LCD)
Chip on Glass (COG) LCDs have the driver IC on the glass near the input pins or ribbon connector (The rectangle on the glass near the pins & ribbon) and they come in
serial data input as well as parallel data input like TN, STN, and FSTN modules. Many of the serial data input COG LCDs have the same number of pins as the parallel
data input LCDs, so with COG LCDs the datasheets are more important as the inputs purpose is not easy to see when you are just looking at the LCD.
As well as the attached datasheet here is some pin outs for COG displays, many of the data sheets have the Display in the part number such as, S161COG, 16x1 COG
display, S162COG, 16x2 COG display, and 64128L 128x64 graphic LCD display.
The contrast circuit for COG LCDs is the same as the contrast circuit as TN, STN, FSTN module.
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You can just pull the LCD however finding just the right ribbon socket can be hard, so the only part I need from the circuit board to use this COG LCD else where is the
ribbon socket. (Inside the yellow rectangle) I do this by placing my large soldering iron on the back of the circuit board and when the solder melts I lift off the socket.
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You can copy and paste the code below into sketch:
/*
LiquidCrystal Library - Hello World
Demonstrates the use a 16x2 LCD display. The LiquidCrystal library works with all LCD displays that are compatible with the
Hitachi HD44780 driver. There are many of them out there, and you can usually tell them by the 16-pin interface.
The circuit:
* LCD RS pin to digital pin 12
* LCD Enable pin to digital pin 11
* LCD D4 pin to digital pin 5
* LCD D5 pin to digital pin 4
* LCD D6 pin to digital pin 3
* LCD D7 pin to digital pin 2
* LCD R/W pin to ground
* 10K resistor:
* ends to +5V and ground
* wiper to LCD VO pin (pin 3)
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*/
void setup() {
// set up the LCD's number of columns and rows:
lcd.begin(16, 2);
// Print a message to the LCD.
lcd.print("hello, world!");
}
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void loop() {
// set the cursor to column 0, line 1
// (note: line 1 is the second row, since counting begins with 0):
lcd.setCursor(0, 1);
// print the number of seconds since reset:
lcd.print(millis()/1000);
}
/*
Demonstrates the use a 16x1 LCD display; the LiquidCrystal library works with all LCD displays that are compatible with the Hitachi HD44780 driver. There are many of
them out there, and you can usually tell them by the 16-pin interface however these are 16x1 LCD, 14 pin interface.
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*/
void setup() {
void loop() {
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Step 8: Testing 16X1 TN, STN, FSTN 14 Pin LCD Modules
Using Arduino to test the 16x1 modules and check the functions I used this hookup and code for the 16x1 14 pin LCD.
You can copy and paste the code below into sketch:
/*
Demonstrates the use a 16x1 LCD display; the LiquidCrystal library works with all LCD displays that are compatible with the Hitachi HD44780 driver. There are many of
them out there, and you can usually tell them by the 16-pin interface however these are 16x1 LCD, 14 pin interface.
*/
void setup() {
void loop() {
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Step 9: Testing 16X1 TN, STN, FSTN 10 Pin LCD Modules
Using Arduino to test the 16x1 10 pin modules again I found a few differences; the same code used for the 16x1 14 pin is used for the 10 pin LCD, this is the hookup and
code for the 16x1 10 pin LCD.
/*
Demonstrates the use a 16x1 LCD display; the LiquidCrystal library works with all LCD displays that are compatible with the Hitachi HD44780 driver. There are many of
them out there, and you can usually tell them by the 16-pin interface however these are 16x1 LCD, 14 pin interface.
*/
void setup() {
void loop() {
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Step 10: Salvaging Other LCDs
This graphic LCD has everything needed to reuse it in a project.
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Step 11: Salvaging a Compact Disk player LCD Display
This circuit board came from a compact disk player; I start by tracing out the circuitry and looking up the LCD driver IC. The IC is a PT6533 general purpose LCD driver
this part is important and it makes salvaging the LCD easier, other than the backlight LEDs the driver and the LCD are separate from the push button switches. Now I
know what I need to cut away from the circuit board to salvage the LCD.
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Next I mark the conductors I want by color code and remove all the unwanted circuitry by scraping the conductors with a utility knife.
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Step 13: Cutting out the LCD
Be careful during this part; safety glasses and heavy leather gloves, while I was shaping this circuit board the dremel jumped and hit my hand cutting my thumb through
the leather gloves causing me to get three stiches. It would have been worse had I not been wearing the gloves.
After removing the unwanted circuitry I cut the circuit board to the shape I want with my dremel leaving a tab for mounting the LCD.
I scrape clean the ends of the conductors and solder the white wire to the white conductor and so on until all six wires are soldered to the circuit board.
Although the wires are soldered in place with movement they can break free from the circuit board. To prevent this I glue the wires in place with Goop glue and wait 24
hours before testing.
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Step 15: Testing the New LCD
Many of the members at Instructables and our visitors use Arduino and Raspberry Pi for their projects. I connected the new LCD to my Arduino UNO, the LED backlights
work but I am still working on the Arduino code to run serial input LCDs.
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Josehf Murchison says: Dec 22, 2013. 4:04 PM REPLY
Just remember play safe I got three stiches doing this Instructable and I was playing safe.
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