Alex Lindeman

First quarter

Make an LCD display show and scroll system information.

Monolith
uptime: 3d 12h 45m

then after a few seconds...

Monolith
load: 0.03 0.05 0.01

Links

• Crystalfontz LCD Displays http://crystalfontz.com/
• LCD4Linux http://ssl.bulix.org/projects/lcd4linux/

Goals

• Make a small display scroll lots of text, like: Done
  • uptime Done
  • load average Done
  • cpu usage Done
  • memory usage Done
  • disk usage Done
  • disk temperature Done

Media:lcd4linux.conf.txt

• Make the display work over USB or serial. Done
• Make a button that toggles the backlight (if I get a display with a backlight), either over hardware or software
• Build a little plexiglas stand for the display so it doesn't sit on the table. 50% - curve bottom so it stands up
• Make it work across multiple computers Done

Progress

• Ordered display + USB cable today (9/16/2010):
• Arrived 9/21/2010
• Built LCD4Linux 9/23/2010, mostly working
• Got LCD to display what I want on the 4 rows, but now I need to scroll stuff (9/29/10)