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WindOutputModifier is a multiplier for wind speed, affecting only wind turbines. SolarOutputModifier is a multiplier for solar panels and oxygen farms. TemperatureModifier affects the character’s external suit temperature. OxygenLevelModifier affects character’s external suit pressure, wind turbine efficiency, and vents. You can use it to make the air toxic with low oxygen!

Designed for continuous motion applications, Belden’s MachFlex can help eliminate cable failure and downtime caused by insulation abrasion, shield degradation, and torque failures. Matchflex"s tight bend radius makes it a great fit for space-constraint application as well.

Want to display sensor readings in your ESP32 projects without resorting to serial output? Then an I2C LCD display might be a better choice for you! It consumes only two GPIO pins which can also be shared with other I2C devices.

True to their name, these LCDs are ideal for displaying only text/characters. A 16×2 character LCD, for example, has an LED backlight and can display 32 ASCII characters in two rows of 16 characters each.

At the heart of the adapter is an 8-bit I/O expander chip – PCF8574. This chip converts the I2C data from an ESP32 into the parallel data required for an LCD display.

If you are using multiple devices on the same I2C bus, you may need to set a different I2C address for the LCD adapter so that it does not conflict with another I2C device.

An important point here is that several companies manufacture the same PCF8574 chip, Texas Instruments and NXP Semiconductors, to name a few. And the I2C address of your LCD depends on the chip manufacturer.

So your LCD probably has a default I2C address 0x27Hex or 0x3FHex. However it is recommended that you find out the actual I2C address of the LCD before using it.

Connecting I2C LCD to ESP32 is very easy as you only need to connect 4 pins. Start by connecting the VCC pin to the VIN on the ESP32 and GND to ground.

After wiring up the LCD you’ll need to adjust the contrast of the display. On the I2C module you will find a potentiometer that you can rotate with a small screwdriver.

Plug in the ESP32’s USB connector to power the LCD. You will see the backlight lit up. Now as you turn the knob on the potentiometer, you will start to see the first row of rectangles. If that happens, Congratulations! Your LCD is working fine.

The I2C address of your LCD depends on the manufacturer, as mentioned earlier. If your LCD has a Texas Instruments’ PCF8574 chip, its default I2C address is 0x27Hex. If your LCD has NXP Semiconductors’ PCF8574 chip, its default I2C address is 0x3FHex.

So your LCD probably has I2C address 0x27Hex or 0x3FHex. However it is recommended that you find out the actual I2C address of the LCD before using it. Luckily there’s an easy way to do this. Below is a simple I2C scanner sketch that scans your I2C bus and returns the address of each I2C device it finds.

After uploading the code, open the serial monitor at a baud rate of 115200 and press the EN button on the ESP32. You will see the I2C address of your I2C LCD display.

But, before you proceed to upload the sketch, you need to make a small change to make it work for you. You must pass the I2C address of your LCD and the dimensions of the display to the constructor of the LiquidCrystal_I2C class. If you are using a 16×2 character LCD, pass the 16 and 2; If you’re using a 20×4 LCD, pass 20 and 4. You got the point!

In ‘setup’ we call three functions. The first function is init(). It initializes the LCD object. The second function is clear(). This clears the LCD screen and moves the cursor to the top left corner. And third, the backlight() function turns on the LCD backlight.

After that we set the cursor position to the third column of the first row by calling the function lcd.setCursor(2, 0). The cursor position specifies the location where you want the new text to be displayed on the LCD. The upper left corner is assumed to be col=0, row=0.

lcd.scrollDisplayRight() function scrolls the contents of the display one space to the right. If you want the text to scroll continuously, you have to use this function inside a for loop.

lcd.scrollDisplayLeft() function scrolls the contents of the display one space to the left. Similar to above function, use this inside a for loop for continuous scrolling.

If you find the characters on the display dull and boring, you can create your own custom characters (glyphs) and symbols for your LCD. They are extremely useful when you want to display a character that is not part of the standard ASCII character set.

As discussed earlier in this tutorial a character is made up of a 5×8 pixel matrix, so you need to define your custom character within that matrix. You can use the createChar() function to define a character.

CGROM is used to store all permanent fonts that are displayed using their ASCII codes. For example, if we send 0x41 to the LCD, the letter ‘A’ will be printed on the display.

CGRAM is another memory used to store user defined characters. This RAM is limited to 64 bytes. For a 5×8 pixel based LCD, only 8 user-defined characters can be stored in CGRAM. And for 5×10 pixel based LCD only 4 user-defined characters can be stored.

After the library is included and the LCD object is created, custom character arrays are defined. The array consists of 8 bytes, each byte representing a row of a 5×8 LED matrix. In this sketch, eight custom characters have been created.

In December 2007, VESA released DisplayID, a second generation of EDID. It is intended to replace all previous versions. DisplayID is a variable length data structure, of up to 256 bytes, that conveys display-related information to attached source devices. It is meant to encompass PC display devices, consumer televisions, and embedded displays such as LCD screens within laptops, without the need for multiple extension blocks. DisplayID is not directly backward compatible with previous EDID/E-EDID versions, but is not yet widely incorporated in AV products.

Basic Display Parameters/Features – The next five bytes define characteristics such as whether the display accepts analog or digital inputs, sync types, maximum horizontal and vertical size of the display, gamma transfer characteristics, power management capabilities, color space, and default video timing.

Extron HDMI and DVI matrix switchers with EDID Minder® achieve this by managing EDID communications for each input/output tie. EDID Minder® first analyzes the EDID for all displays connected to the system, applies a complex algorithm to determine a common resolution, refresh rate and color space, and then uses the EDID protocol to set up the input sources. This powerful convenience feature simplifies system setup for the integrator, helps ensure consistent and reliable image display, and makes system operation virtually transparent to the end user.

else if ((block is IMyProgrammableBlock) || (block is IMyCockpit)) textSurfaces.Add(((IMyTextSurfaceProvider)block).GetSurface(0));IMyTextPanel does not have the IMyTextSurfaceProvider interface. You might as well be casting a cargo container as an IMyTextSurfaceProvider then wonder why nothing shows. Why would you need the panel to be a provider when you can cast it as an IMyTextSurface? My scripts add all IMyTextSurface instances to a single list using the checks above.

else if ((block is IMyProgrammableBlock) || (block is IMyCockpit)) textSurfaces.Add(((IMyTextSurfaceProvider)block).GetSurface(0));IMyTextPanel does not have the IMyTextSurfaceProvider interface. You might as well be casting a cargo container as an IMyTextSurfaceProvider then wonder why nothing shows. Why would you need the panel to be a provider when you can cast it as an IMyTextSurface? My scripts add all IMyTextSurface instances to a single list using the checks above.

LCD Panels do implement both IMyTextSurface and IMyTextSurfaceProvider. (It"s easy enough to verify in the game itself.) That IMyTextSurfaceProvider interface does contain one surface but it"s not any visible surface.

As for what I"d like, it would be a consistent API. I understand that having LCD Panels implement IMyTextSurface directly is helpful to those who have a shaky grasp of programming and are used to how things were before this change so having that helps with this transition. However, LCD Panels do also implement IMyTextSurfaceProvider so, for consistency, it would make sense that the surface provided by LCD Panels" provider is also the visible surface (i.e.: the same surface the block implements directly) rather than an extra, unused surface.

LCD Panels do implement both IMyTextSurface and IMyTextSurfaceProvider. (It"s easy enough to verify in the game itself.) That IMyTextSurfaceProvider interface does contain one surface but it"s not any visible surface.

As for what I"d like, it would be a consistent API. I understand that having LCD Panels implement IMyTextSurface directly is helpful to those who have a shaky grasp of programming and are used to how things were before this change so having that helps with this transition. However, LCD Panels do also implement IMyTextSurfaceProvider so, for consistency, it would make sense that the surface provided by LCD Panels" provider is also the visible surface (i.e.: the same surface the block implements directly) rather than an extra, unused surface.

I don"t really use those checks, I only check if it"s an IMyTextPanel when I pass a single IMyTerminalBlock to my output function, if it"s not a panel I just cast it as a provider. Otherwise I fill a list of terminal blocks with a specific type, cast it appropriately, add the text surface to a list, and repeat with a different type.

I don"t really use those checks, I only check if it"s an IMyTextPanel when I pass a single IMyTerminalBlock to my output function, if it"s not a panel I just cast it as a provider. Otherwise I fill a list of terminal blocks with a specific type, cast it appropriately, add the text surface to a list, and repeat with a different type.

LCD Panels do not implement IMyTextSurfaceProvider. I do not know where the surface came from. IMyTextPanel is equal to IMyTextSurface. IMyTextSurface is equal to IMyTextSurfaceProvider. IMyTextPanel may be equal to IMyTextSurfaceProvider but that doesn"t mean it is intentional.

LCD Panels do not implement IMyTextSurfaceProvider. I do not know where the surface came from. IMyTextPanel is equal to IMyTextSurface. IMyTextSurface is equal to IMyTextSurfaceProvider. IMyTextPanel may be equal to IMyTextSurfaceProvider but that doesn"t mean it is intentional.

Sandbox.Game.Entities.Blocks.MyTextPanel has the interface Sandbox.ModAPI.Ingame.IMyTextSurfaceProvider, this may be why you can cast it as an IMyTextSurfaceProvider.

Sandbox.Game.Entities.Blocks.MyTextPanel has the interface Sandbox.ModAPI.Ingame.IMyTextSurfaceProvider, this may be why you can cast it as an IMyTextSurfaceProvider.

LCD Panels can be found with the type IMyTextSurfaceProvider, getting the first surface works, applying the content type to text and image works, but writing to it does not work. I"m not sure why it partially works. Maybe because it is convenient to get a list of IMyTextSurfaceProvider stored as IMyTerminalBlock, cast IMyTextPanel as IMyTextSurface, and everything else as IMyTextSurfaceProvider.

LCD Panels can be found with the type IMyTextSurfaceProvider, getting the first surface works, applying the content type to text and image works, but writing to it does not work. I"m not sure why it partially works. Maybe because it is convenient to get a list of IMyTextSurfaceProvider stored as IMyTerminalBlock, cast IMyTextPanel as IMyTextSurface, and everything else as IMyTextSurfaceProvider.

Both IMyTextPanel and IMyTextSurfaceProvider are under Sandbox.ModAPI.Ingame and, even though the association is only defined in Sandbox.ModAPI, you can cast them back and forth anyway because the whitelist doesn"t seem to restrict by parent/child, just by name/assembly.

Both IMyTextPanel and IMyTextSurfaceProvider are under Sandbox.ModAPI.Ingame and, even though the association is only defined in Sandbox.ModAPI, you can cast them back and forth anyway because the whitelist doesn"t seem to restrict by parent/child, just by name/assembly.