Found this interesting product: http://www.tvterminal.de/index.html
Scroll down for the english version. It could enable a picaxe to interface to a standard VGA monitor and a PC keyboard. I know the keyboard can be done via an 18X, but the video is quite unique. Many of us would have old vga monitors lying around, and at worst you can pick one up at a second hand store for $10 (or even on the side of the road).
I'm thinking of all the LCD displays I am using. 16x2 works fine and then you run out of space and go to 20x4. But go much beyond 20x4 and the display adaptor above becomes cheaper than a bigger LCD.
A question for the experts - sertxd can run at 9600 with an overclocked picaxe. Which picaxes can run at 9600 baud on serin? Or (for the 18X at least), could keyin be used for this purpose?
Scroll down for the english version. It could enable a picaxe to interface to a standard VGA monitor and a PC keyboard. I know the keyboard can be done via an 18X, but the video is quite unique. Many of us would have old vga monitors lying around, and at worst you can pick one up at a second hand store for $10 (or even on the side of the road).
I'm thinking of all the LCD displays I am using. 16x2 works fine and then you run out of space and go to 20x4. But go much beyond 20x4 and the display adaptor above becomes cheaper than a bigger LCD.
A question for the experts - sertxd can run at 9600 with an overclocked picaxe. Which picaxes can run at 9600 baud on serin? Or (for the 18X at least), could keyin be used for this purpose?