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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
Date: Thu,  8 May 2014 18:58:31 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] radio
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I have a hifiberry (http://www.hifiberry.com/) nicely minimalist,
though no driver at present - I will await the GSOC project :-)

I have some itron VFDs from work, 256 x 64 pixel. I like these as
the visibility is excellent. The only annoyance is they have
a parallel interface and I use up all the PI's GPIOs.

I also need to interface a rotary encoder for the tuning knob which
is also a pain - not complex enough to justify an FPGA, but a bit too
much to poll when the PI is doing audio decode as well.

Thinking of adding a PIC or an AVR just for the encoder / VFD interface
and talking i2c to it.

we will see.

-Steve