[Mostafa] was a bit tired as well as had a damaged DVD player sitting around, so he made a decision to take it apart to see what made the machine’s LCD panel tick. when he popped it open, he found it wasn’t an LCD panel at all, it was a VFD.
The seven section screen sought to be managed by an ET16312n VFD driver, so he dug around on the internet as well as discovered a datasheet for the chip. After checking out the documentation he was quite positive he might get things working without as well much trouble. He started tracing the board for the STB, CLK, Din, as well as Dout leads he needed to set up serial communications with the panel as well as was on his method in no time.
He hooked the panel as much as the parallel port on his computer, as well as got hectic hammering out some C code to compose text to the display. ideal now, the code lets you scroll text across the display, which is about as far as [Mostafa] cares to take it. It was done mainly as a proof of idea exercise, however considering that this VFD is compliant with the exact same NEC programming common that a lot of VFDs use, his code can likely be reused to drive any type of similar screen with extremely bit tweaking.