I have to go to my pc to see which song winamp is playing (I can’t see that from my worktable). For this reason I have decided to make an LCD above my worktable and control it with “LCD Smartie“. Normally this is done with a parallel port, but then I had to lay a “big” cable to my worktable, while there was already an USB hub op my worktable. So I went for an USB LCD. The design for this I found on bit-tech.
For the LCD I’m going to use an 2×24 LCD that i got from Mario:
The circuit:
Source. 18F2550