HP LaserJet control panel hooked up to an Arduino:
This has been done before here: Touchpad And VFD Hacking | Hackaday but the links to the details are dead so there seemed to be a good excuse to do it again. I haven't seen anyone demo the buttons and LEDs before either. The board isn't really very practical to reuse but it was fun to mess around with. I believe the M66004 VFD driver IC is also used in some Hi-Fi equipment also.
YES! I have had this VFD board sitting in my drawer for about a year now, itching to use it in a project.
Thank you very much for documenting this, extremely helpful! Thank you even more for the PM to inform me of your post!
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:: Update ::
Got a chance to hook mine up and try it, and it works! Mine only had 9 pins in a single row though, so I had to determine the correct connections for mine with a bit of trial and error (along with some help from a multi-meter)
Heh, no, I didn't see that page. Oh well, glad I could help.
I'll probably end up implementing it in the thermostat I was working on, instead of the LCD I was going to use, as this already had buttons and status LED's built in.
Hello,
The past days i received a RM1-5059 HP control panel, i searched on the web for some solution to interface it with the arduino uno v3. Found some libraries for it Arduino Playground - HpLaserJetLcd but it don't work. I have the IDE v1.5.5 if someone may help me with the correct libraries or some tip will be great.
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