KS0108 and big fonts

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Hardware Interfacing
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Done lots of searching but haven't been able to sort this out:

I'm making a speedo for my motorcycle and I have the GLCD (Graphic LCD 128x64 STN LED Backlight - LCD-00710 - SparkFun Electronics) from Sparkfun. I've been able to get it going, but I'm trying to work out how to get big fonts working... I have tried font creators, tried to get Font Creator 2 working but guessing I need some Java environment running too?

So Q's:

  1. I can get fonts about 48 pixels high? (like the Sparkfun pictured example)
  2. Are the big fonts essentially just 'images' like a converted BMP?
  3. Example of some code somewhere where someone has used large fonts?

Thanks for help in advance!

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The font in that picture is probably a 32 pixel font. Have a look at numbers created by fontcreator and you will see that 32 pixel digits look like the picture you posted.

If you are using the library in the arduino playground there is an example of how to use fonts made by fontcreator. If you are using Sparkfuns serial interface have your tried to get help on that in the Sparkfun forum?

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Nah, I'm using the billions of wires module.. I'll have a look at the playground examples again.. hope I can gleen some more ideas on big fonts from that.

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Mint... that worked. I just had to 'realise' that I had to use a Java Virtual Machine on my mac to run it. Awesome... cheers for your help mem