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Adding an LCD Status Screen to a PC

Posted by timothy on from the you-have-10,203,180-new-messages dept.

blankmange writes: "The Screensavers is running an interesting hack - add an LCD screen to your PC for just information. "The real estate on your screen is precious, and with your PC's vital stats, Winamp info, game stats, stock tickers, news tickers, sports scores, and more, it's easy to run out of space. How about adding a liquid crystal display (LCD) that can show this type of information?" Seems pretty straight-forward ... " Yes, but can you make one as as pretty as this one?

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  1. Hardware ? by forged · · Score: 5, Interesting
    How about creating a Computer MODS section ?

    It isn't the first time that this is suggested, and with the increase of case mods posts recently (and others sort of mods), this would make sense.

  2. Those LED scroller things... by Mwongozi · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I've always wanted to hook up one of those big LED text scroller things that you sometimes see in shop windows to my PC, to display the time and things like "You have mail!"

    But I don't even if know if it's possible...