Kann ich zum verlöten von einem Koaxialstecker (PL-irgendwas) Zinn nehmen?

Gibt es da Unterschiede? Ich habe hier "Stangenlötzinn Zinkblech - zum Weichlöten von Zinkblecken - nur mit Lötwasser."

Hört sich nicht nach dem richtigen an. Oder spielt das hier keine Rolle?

#Handwerk #DIY #Elektro

Then I wondered: Can you actually reprogram a character while it is being displayed? Like you may expect in such an old chip, the #HD44780 does *not* latch the customized character anywhere. Instead, every time it scans out the characters to the LCD, it reads the bitmap from RAM again.

That means that if one of the customized characters is in use, it updates immediately on the display when changing it via the parallel #Programming interface.

I don't think anyone has ever these displays to show a 40-band live spectrogram of the music playing on their laptop, but I did now.

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#Electronics #DIY

Those of you who tinker with #DIY #Electronics projects might know these types of character-based liquid crystal displays.

This one features 20 characters in four rows. Each cell has 5x8 pixels. The controller has a baked-in font with a (very nonstandard) 8-bit codepage. It can be used to display text, such as "Hello Fediversians!".

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Photograph of display showing text. It reads "Hello Fediversians!". The display is old-fashioned, with each letter being in a cell of 5x8 dark pixels against a transflective green-ish background. The display is mounted in a dark brown bezel on a green printed copper board. At the top of the board, 16 wires are soldered which go out of frame. Each corner has a gold-plated screw hole.