Hello!
I have recently come to learn about Arduino and this community. I have been trying to identify this board (pictures provided) and came upon this site in the process. I am not even sure if it is an Arduino board.
Does anyone have any idea what this board is? If so, do you happen to know if I can use it using the Arduino IDE? Thanks in advance!
Can you list the IC and display numbers that appear on the board?
Of course:
This is what I could get from the board.
The board has its own microcontroller, PIC16, so Iam afraid it is incompatible with Arduino
My guess is that this is meant to be a display that gets its data over the 9-pin connector (RS232 most likely).
So it can very well be made compatible with an Arduino, as long as you know the data protocol it expects. Without datasheet of the device it's going to be very hard to reverse engineer how to address it.
Hi,
Looks like an extender display for a set of weighing scales or the like.
Tom... 
In my opinion, referring to micontroladore, I understand that
Being compatible means having similar hardware and the same instruction set, and both can use the same IDE or other software resources.
Being accessible via a standard protocol does not mean being compatible.
If that were the case, every microcontroller that had I2C would be compatible with each other.
On the other hand, for example the PIC16F628, as it does not have I2C,
It would not be compatible with the PIC16F818, which has I2C.
But they are compatible, as they allow the use of the same IDE
and has the same instruction set.
So I agree with Mr. @b707 that this board, because it uses the PIC16C63A, is not compatible with Arduino.
It seems we have a different definition of "compatible".
By my definition at least all those sensors and displays we use (including those with their own microcontrollers on board) remain compatible and usable with an Arduino.
"Programmable with the same IDE" is a very narrow definition of this; especially in case of a display unit the hardware of which is obviously designed to do one thing and one thing only. There's not much if anything else you can do with it by reprogramming that PIC - which you quite likely can actually do, as it appears like the PCB of that display unit even has a programming port.
Anyway, there exist at least one PIC32 core for the Arduino IDE, and there are ways to use an Arduino to program a PIC. A quick search also told me that you will not get a PIC16 core for Arduino, you'll have to use a different IDE for that.
Where did you get the board?
I'm confident that it could be made to work as a display for an Arduino, but in the absence of any other information, that would require decent reverse engineering skills.
Thank you, I will check these out!
I found it cleaning out an old office. It didn't have any paperwork with it so I will be continueing to research. Thanks!
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